Thanks, Fred. The software to generate those growing organisms and make the videos is all my own code (about 2000 lines of Java, using JOGL to drive the openGL). Yes, I've thought a lot about an immersive 3D environment with interactive mathematical content. Imagine walking through 4D polytopes... It would be a great exhibit for the Museum of Mathematics. Unfortunately, the immersive 3D display technologies I am aware of can not support many visitors per hour, but the Museum of Mathematics needs to be able to handle large school groups. So such an exhibit is not currently slated to appear in the Museum when it opens. (MoMath will open in Manhattan in less than two years.) But I'll keep my eye out for newer technologies. George http://momath.org http://georgehart.com On 7/1/2010 3:38 PM, Fred lunnon wrote:
Nice graphics, George --- what do you use to produce them?
Any thoughts about holographic / 3-D / interactive / walk-through displays of similar material?
Fred Lunnon
On 7/1/10, George W. Hart<george@georgehart.com> wrote:
On 7/1/2010 11:46 AM, Mike Stay wrote:
...I'm just interested in CAs that potentially change the shape or connectivity of their cells...
Mike,
Some cool videos here may interest you, but it is not exactly what you are looking for since my main focus is on visually interesting embeddings of the evolving graph in 3-space. Figure 2 in the cited paper details the rule used for changing the neighborhood graph structure:
http://www.georgehart.com/Growth/growth.html
George Hart http://momath.org http://georgehart.com
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