Cellular Automata

Linkdump from today's explorations

This reminded me of Cellular Automata and Conway's game of life.

Post by Olya Petrakova.

There are 128 rules with last digit "1" 000 1 I'll have to experiment, maybe finally learn some processing, to list them all here. While searching differential equations, I found an interesting discussion about why the Navier Stokes equation is so difficult. This fits nicely into the blog post yesterday about equations. http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/56496/what-is-the-mystery-of-turbulence/66917#66917 The solution to the equation is an open question in mathematics and you can read a very precise (2 page) description of it here: http://www.claymath.org/millenium-problems/navier%E2%80%93stokes-equation It basically describes how fluids flow.

Compressible flow (air)
Incompressible flow (water)