The Computational Beauty of Nature
Gary William Flake · 1998
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"In this book, Gary William Flake develops in depth the simple idea that recurrent rules can produce rich and complicated behaviors. Distinguishing "agents" (e.g., molecules, cells, animals, and species) from their interactions (e.g., chemical reactions, immune system responses, sexual reproduction, and evolution), Flake argues that it is the computational properties of interactions that account for much of what we think of as "beautiful" and "interesting." From this basic thesis, Flake explores what he considers to be today's four most interesting computational topics: fractals, chaos, complex systems, and adaptation."--BOOK JACKET.
First sentence: Let's take this idea further by examining a single ant.
Book details
- Year
- 1998
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Editions
- 4
- Pages
- 514
- ISBN
- 9780262561273
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