The following illustrations show fuzzy automata on a hexagonal lattice that have been designed to maintain the symmetry of a snowflake. In particular, arithmetic combinations of two level deep neighbors give the new value at any position. The specific combination taken depends upon the configuration of frozen cells in that neighborhood. These models can be made very sensitive to the background level and hence, like snowflakes, readily give rise to a wide diversity of forms. A sample J script for creating images of this type appears below the illustrations.
The first nine animations show the evolution of the automata of a single solid cell in a fuzzy background with the indicated value. The animations range in size from 1-4M.
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fz_hx0o1700a.mov |
fz_hx0o1730a.mov |
fz_hx0o1762a.mov |
fz_hx0o1778a.mov |
fz_hx0o1788a.mov |
fz_hx0o1800a.mov |
fz_hx0o1880a.mov |
fz_hx0o3000a.mov |
fz_hx_i2_0o1730_.mov |
fz_hx_i3_0o1630_.mov |
fz_hz_os_16_0o1771_0o2000a.mov |
fz_hz_os_16_0o1840_0o2000a.mov |
fz_hz_os_16_0o2000_0o1800a.mov |
fz_hz_os_16_0o2000_0o3000a.mov |