Comments on: I See Sierpinski Shapes by the Sea Shore

By: Geoff

Geoff — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:56:32 +0000

Hi Greg, Elementary cellular automata can produce these shapes (and many others). I wrote a blog post about them, and also wrote a small applet to allow you to experiment with different rulesets.

By: Greg Gauthier

Greg Gauthier — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:03:34 +0000

Is there a good place to find formulas describing these rules? I’d love to tinker with some code….

By: Elementary Cellular Automata « trues memory dump

Elementary Cellular Automata « trues memory dump — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:56:20 +0000

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By: On Tigers, diffusion and chaos « The Green Destiny

On Tigers, diffusion and chaos « The Green Destiny — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:43:19 +0000

[...] spots, rosettes, bands, blocks, combination of these and in the case of some sea shells – Serpenski triangle! Even in animal behavior, there is so much elegance – if you have not seen the movements of [...]

By: David W

David W — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:36:56 +0000

this looks shopped…i can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time

By: teamfresh

teamfresh — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:09:44 +0000

Wow! These shells are beautiful!

By: Geoff

Geoff — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:57:20 +0000

Thanks David – I thought I fixed this from the last time you brought this up, but… sigh… should be working now.

By: David W

David W — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:45:56 +0000

Hey dude,

All your images are replaced with an image suggesting my Referer header is wrong. Both from Google Reader and visiting directly with a vanilla Firefox install.