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- From: heitkoet@lusty.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Joerg Heitkoetter)
- Newsgroups: comp.theory.cell-automata
- Subject: Re: 3D BZ
- Message-ID: <1i49btINNs0h@fbi-news.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 14:37:49 GMT
- References: <199301012150.AA20881@sjsumcs.SJSU.EDU>
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- In article <199301012150.AA20881@sjsumcs.SJSU.EDU>, rucker@sjsumcs.SJSU.EDU
- (Rudy Rucker) writes:
- |>
- |> There is a lovely photo of a 3D Belusov-Zhabotinsky type CA (scrolls)
- |> on p. 111 of the coffee-table paperback FRACTALS THE PATTERNS OF CHAOS
- |> by John Briggs (Simon & Schuster Touchstone Books 1992). The image
- |> is by Mario Markus, a physicist at the Max Planck Institute in
- |> Dortmund,
- |> Germany.
- Well that's my old working group, the biomathematics research group ;-)
-
- It seems that every book on chaos, etc. gets a picture of our little
- institute: eg. the German version of Paul Davis' book also carries a 3D
- picture of the BZ reaction, but of a different numerical model.
-
- |> This is the first such picture I've ever seen, and I'd love
- |> to see more. I've written Mario Markus but haven't heard back yet.
- Try to reach him by email: markus@mpi-dortmund.mpg.dbp.de should should
- work...if you do not succeed he might be visiting his hometown:
- Santiago de Chile (he is Chilean).
-
- The Institut has neither a News feed, nor a properly set up finger(1)
- service, unfortunately.
-
- |> Does anyone know anything more about this picture or about other pictures
- |> of 3D CAs?
- One of the first was introduced by A.K. Dewdney in Scientific American,
- by Charter Bayon a 3D version of life(1)...he also wrote an article on
- this in Complex Systems, as far as I remember.
-
- In article MCINTOSH@unamvm1.dgsca.unam.mx ("Harold V. McIntosh") writes:
- |> Picturing any kind of 3-d automata on PC-level equipment is something of
- |> a challenge, but there must be some interesting rewards for those who manage
- |> to do so; this is evidently one of them.
- As stated above: this will not be the picture of a cellular-automaton, but
- of a numerical model. The original program of Charter Bay ran and displayed
- it's
- state on a Macintosh.
-
- Mario's picture was probably computed using the MPI's compute server:
- a CONVEX 20xx Supermini...
-
- -joke
-
- --
- Joerg Heitkoetter
- Systems Analysis Group
- University of Dortmund, Germany
- (joke@ls11.informatik.uni-dortmund.de).
-