From: Harold V. McIntosh (MCINTOSH@unamvm1.dgsca.unam.mx)
Date: Sat Jan 02 1993 - 00:28:52 UTC
Rudy Ruckler comments: > > There is a lovely photo of a 3D Belusov-Zhabotinsky type CA (scrolls) > on p. 111 of the coffee-table paperback FRACTALS THE PATTERNS OF CHAOS > by John Briggs (Simon & Schuster Touchstone Books 1992). The image > ... > By pure chance a copy of the June, 1974 issue of Scientific American is sitting here beside the machine; the cover picture is entitled 'Rotating Chemical Reactions,' illustrating Arthur T. Winfree's article on pages 82-95. Among other things he discusses the forms that the famous spirals might take in three dimensions. - Picturing any kind of 3-d automata on PC-level equipment is something of a challenge, but there must be some interesting rewards for those who manage to do so; this is evidently one of them. - Harold V. McIntosh |Depto. de Aplicaci'on de Microcomputadoras MCINTOSH@UNAMVM1.BITNET |Instituto de Ciencias/UAP mcintosh@unamvm1.dgsca.unam.mx |Apdo. Postal 461 (+52+22)43-6330 |72000 Puebla, Pue., MEXICO
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