Sound: Advanced Topics I (G6610, Fall 2015) week 7

cellular automata

We started this class playing 'catch up' with L-systems and fractals from the prior week. Part of this class, then, will spill over into next week, but I'll collect the class patches here (again to keep things semi-organized). I'm putting up the CA links for now, though, because they are such fun!

Links

2-D CAs:

Conway's Game of Life -- I like to turn the trails off, but suit yourself
selection of 2-D CAs -- scroll down to see all of them. Code explanation for js, too.
interesting 2-D CAs -- also with code. Cool!

1-D CAs:
Elementary Cellular Automata -- from Steven Wolfram (CEO of Wolfram Research), the KING of cellular automata (check out his book A New Kind of Science if'n ya don't believe me).
256-state 1-D CA -- kind of useless but pretty
Processing 1-D CA examples -- random, but with Processing code
1-D CAs by rule nmber -- useful to check the different 1-D rules.

CA info and music:
"cellular automaton music" -- links to CA pieces that surely sound like CA pieces.
older class link -- with some of the above links on it.
an older class link -- explanation of the "cellauto" patch with some very old links.
Novation sequencer CA -- interesting use of Novation Launchpad and Conway's "game of life"

Also be sure to check out the Max/MSP object [jit.conway] and the "woframatic" example patch (done by Luke for one of our classes, yay!).

Class Downloads

week7-patches.zip -- the patches we did in class, "cellauto" is the older patch that made the octatonic tunes, and "cellauto-delay" worked up the delay-line fun