![]() ![]() ![]() Enter… Conways’s Game of LifeĬonway’s Game of Life (GOL) is the canonical example of cellular automata and the ideas of the complex being born for simple rules and high variability outcomes based on low variability initial conditions. Cellular Automata, L Systems, and Complexity were all that mattered oh the good old days… Thinking of this, my mind blended by old interest with my new obsession with all things gganimate, and this post was born! I want to implement CA in ggplot and make a gif with gganimate. I poured over those 1200 pages and tried to figure out that the hell it meant for understanding past human experience (a work in progress). I remember waiting with bated breath as Stephan Wolfram’s A New Kind Of Science hit the shelves in 2002 (you often had to physically go to book store back then). Reading this paper reminded me of my love for Cellular Automata (CA). I used to do a lot of research on ABM and particularly the philosophy of Emergence, but I have drifted away from it in recent years in favor or more quantitative/statistical/inferential methods (I am not sure if that is a suitable differentiation…) This is not to say that I didn’t enjoy every paper/presentation I have seen by the likes er_crema, Iza_Romanowska, and Kholer & Co. Whichever the case, Cegielski and Rogers was a great way to get back into some of the happenings in ABM and I really agree with a lot of what they say. I was reading a new paper entitle Rethinking the Role of Agent Based Modeling in Archaeology by Cegielski ( Whcegielski) and Rogers and I was struck reminiscing about my infatuation with the topic.
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