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1998 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

The Automatic Ant: Compassless Constructions

verfasst von : David Gale

Erschienen in: Tracking the Automatic ANT

Verlag: Springer New York

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Most readers of this book are no doubt familiar with John Conway’s famous Game of Life. Life is an example of what have come to be called cellular automata. I will discuss here another such automaton, called the ant, and though it is very easy to describe, its behavior is interesting and somewhat mysterious.

Metadaten
Titel
The Automatic Ant: Compassless Constructions
verfasst von
David Gale
Copyright-Jahr
1998
Verlag
Springer New York
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2192-0_10