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Boids : Cellular Automata Gadgets

These are cool

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Because anything to do with Cellular Automata is cool.

These are one-off light sensitive lights… the change according to their environment… and if you put them together, they change according to each other.

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And that is the thing with little automous feedback systems when they get together… the inevitably talk to each other, and inevitably create higher-levels of complexity – and that is why fractals look the way they do, and why you get those repeating triangular patterns on textile cones

From Leiteq, in The Netherlands

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  1. Wha? I did not think of it that way. Things sure are getting interesting.

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