Lately, apart from not posting enough, I've been experimenting with automata based scalar fields. Hopefully they'll play into the development of environmental vector fields within the agent/physics class library when I get a bit more time. For now though, I've been tinkering with them in isolation. Here's a quick processing sketch of some of the more interesting results.
What's going on above is a diffusion driven bifurcation. From a random starting value between 0 and 1, each cell iteratively adds the average delta between itself and each of its neighbours. The two distinct regions are produced by dragging each value towards 0 or 1 depending on its relationship to a set bifurcation value, in this case 0.5. To visualize how values are being exchanged, the field is contoured, producing moire patterning in steep regions.
Platforms: Processing
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