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Discrete Dynamics Lab

Tools for Investigating Cellular Automata and Discrete Dynamical Networks

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Artificial Life Models in Software

DDLab is interactive graphics software for creating, visualizing, and analyzing many aspects of Cellular Automata, Random Boolean Networks, and Discrete Dynamical Networks in general and studying their behavior, both from the time-series perspective — space-time patterns, and from the state-space perspective — attractor basins. DDLab is relevant to research, applications, and education in the fields of complexity, self-organization, emergent phenomena, chaos, collision-based computing, neural networks, content addressable memory, genetic regulatory networks, dynamical encryption, generative art and music, and the study of the abstract mathematical/physical/dynamical phenomena in their own right.

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    Andrew Wuensche

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  1. Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology, Piotrowo 2, 60-965, Poznan, Poland

    Maciej Komosinski

  2. Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol, BS16 1QY, UK

    Andrew Adamatzky

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Wuensche, A. (2009). Discrete Dynamics Lab. In: Komosinski, M., Adamatzky, A. (eds) Artificial Life Models in Software. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-285-6_8

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