All articles tagged with #cellular automata
Researchers have developed neural cellular automata (NCAs) that can reverse-engineer rules to self-assemble into desired shapes and regenerate after damage, mimicking biological processes and offering potential applications in medicine, engineering, and computing.
Mathematicians and hobbyists have filled in the missing periods in the "Game of Life," a cellular automaton, with the recent discovery of the last two missing periods, 19 and 41, making Life "omniperiodic." The community studying Life has also found various patterns like spaceships, guns, and prime number computing patterns. The complexity of finding oscillators increases with period, and new techniques and programs have been developed to search for them. The discovery of these missing periods has opened up new questions and challenges for researchers in the field of cellular automata.
Researchers have developed a mechanistic formulation for inorganic membranes at the air-liquid interface, which could lead to the creation of new types of membranes for applications such as water purification and gas separation. The study focused on the interfacial tension between the membrane and the liquid, as well as the elasticity of the membrane. The researchers used a combination of theoretical modeling and experimental techniques to develop their formulation, which could be further refined using cellular automata simulations.