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Welcome to this week’s Math Munch! I ran across the most wonderful compendium of slidey and twisty puzzles this past week when sharing the famous 15-puzzle with one of my classes. It’s called Jaap’s Puzzle Page and it’s run by a software engineer from the Netherlands named Jaap Scherphuis. Jaap has been running his Puzzle Page since 1999. aap Scherphuis nd some of his many puzzles Jaap first encountered hands-on mathematical puzzles when …
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Kiril Stanilov has adapted RIKS METRONAMICA, an established cellular automata (CA) modelling system, to simulate the historical growth of a section of a large world city. The focus is on simulating change from the late 19th century until the modern day for a slice of London from west of Paddington to the M25 orbital road. The model is tuned to reflect the morphology of land use patterns more accurately than traditional CA models, which …
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Today I’m excited to be able to announce that our company is moving into yet another new area: large-scale system modeling. Last year, I wrote about our plans to initiate a new generation of large-scale system modeling. Now we are taking a major step in that direction with the release of Wolfram SystemModeler. SystemModeler is a very general environment that handles modeling of systems with mechanical, electrical, thermal, chemical, …
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We've known for a while that the easiest way to simulate hexagonal cellular automata on a square grid is to use a slanted neighborhood: corresponds to I don't know who first thought of this, by the way. There's a reference to it from June 1971, for example.) t works because the hexagonal tiling can be lined up with a (slanted) square tiling, like this: sing this slanted neighborhood in Golly we can run interesting CA, like Frank Buss' …
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Simple rules can often give rise to very complex behaviour. Applet built using Processing, Wolfram CA code example used as base. Source code available upon request. If this applet fails to load or screws up in any other way, please leave a comment with your browser version and operating system – thanks! What is this? Imagine we have a line running left to right made up of squares, and these squares can be either white or black. We then …
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Voxel engines are everywhere… …and given the huge success of Minecraft, I think they are going to become a permanent fixture in the landscape of game engines. Minecraft (and Infiniminer) live in a unique space somewhere between high-resolution voxels and static prefabricated environments. Modifying a Minecraft world is both intuitive and elegant; you simply pick up and place blocks. In many ways, it is the natural 3D generalization of …