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Cellular Automata: Dying to Live Again, Architecture, Art, Design

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Designing Beauty: The Art of Cellular Automata

Part of the book series: Emergence, Complexity and Computation ((ECC,volume 20))

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As in our own lives, outcomes are not predictable. We start in a simple unknown state and through multiple growth and death cycles of individual cells, we become something that could never have been predicted. Can design be explored using a similar process? Can design and art be driven by forces that are unrelated, unattached to preconceptions, unpredictable, and able to explore possibilities not foreseen? What to do you when you don’t know what to do? Let the process of life and death take over?

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Krawczyk, R.J. (2016). Cellular Automata: Dying to Live Again, Architecture, Art, Design. In: Adamatzky, A., MartĂ­nez, G. (eds) Designing Beauty: The Art of Cellular Automata. Emergence, Complexity and Computation, vol 20. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27270-2_5

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