Cellular Automata: Complexity From Simplicity

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Published 2021-09-24
A brief history and explanation of Cellular Automata and their many applications.

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The opening animation is the Seeds cellular automaton.

References:
softology.com.au/ACellularAutomatonDescribingTheFo…
web.archive.org/web/20081223050254/http://llk.medi…
books.google.com/books?id=HBlJzrBKUTEC&pg=PA27#v=o…

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Music:
Old Friends - Transistor OST
Stained Glass - Transistor OST
Tommy Dorsey - Stardust On The Moon
Kid Ory - High Society
Jimmy Noone - Sweet Georgia Brown

00:00 Intro
00:25 Background
1:15 How They Work
1:50 Rule 110
4:25 Two Dimensions
5:05 Brian's Brain
7:09 Applications
8:38 Belousov-Zhabotinsky
10:37 Conclusion
11:13 Post Credits Scene

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All Comments (21)
  • @Acerola_t
    The La La Land part is super scuffed cause it kept getting flagged for copyright, sorry about that. I'm pretty unhappy with the overall quality of the visuals in this video, but it's been a good learning experience for how quality will transfer to YouTube. Videos will look better in the future.
  • @Whalester
    I'm convinced this whole video was a ploy just to convince us to get to his hypnosis program, and I have been hypnotized to do horrible things now. All my future actions lay responsible on Acerola.
  • @nudemanonbike
    I feel like explaining rule 110 by its binary representation (01101110) would have been easier, and also would have allowed you to explain the other rules fairly quickly.
  • @Brunoenribeiro
    Deadpan humor + Dank memes + Persona and Transistor OST + Spetacular CGI knowledge = best channel I discovered this year
  • @kylebooth2528
    I made one of these to simulate sand I just didn't know what it was called. It was the only way I could think to optimize it since storing and checking for collisions the traditional way would take way to long.
  • @BlackhoundOne
    Transistor soundtrack in the intro? Bro I love you
  • Some years ago for an university assignment I had to implement the Belousov-Zhabotinsky Cellular Automata on plain Java, and man it was satisfying when it finally worked
  • @Denester31
    This is the most representative and creative introduction ever created! Great video!
  • @daifee9174
    Really high quality content, I appreciate your effort
  • @spinagon
    "Old Friends" at the beginning heavily confused me because it's my ringtone for last several years.
  • @borazan
    this deserves many more views, actually inspired me to get my hands dirty with some of these algorithms
  • @ericweiss8264
    I'm surprised that you discussed the relatively dry fluid simulation work but gave no mention to von Neumann's "Universal Constructor" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_universal_constructor) and the works it inspired. That is a really interesting field in my opinion. Incidentally, John Conway himself said in an interview a few years ago that "The Game of Life" has been given far more attention than it deserves.
  • And post 2020, Stephan wolfram would create a fundamental theory of physics based on automata (complexity from simple rules) You should look into the wolfram model btw. I’ve been using it to create essentially new inventions and innovations in the program I use. Someone like you could probably do exponentially greater things (not that you haven’t already) Cheers
  • @MrNo0p
    really cool video. But the true miracle is that youtubes encoding didn't destroy this video with it's bitrate limitations.