Cellular Automata: Complexity From Simplicity

A brief history and explanation of Cellular Automata and their many applications.
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Code: github.com/GarrettGunnell/Cel...
The opening animation is the Seeds cellular automaton.
References:
softology.com.au/ACellularAut...
web.archive.org/web/200812230...
books.google.com/books?id=HBl...
NileRed video: • Recreating one of the ...
Music:
Old Friends - Transistor OST
Stained Glass - Transistor OST
Tommy Dorsey - Stardust On The Moon
Kid Ory - High Society
Jimmy Noone - Sweet Georgia Brown
00:00 Intro
00:25 Background
1:15 How They Work
1:50 Rule 110
4:25 Two Dimensions
5:05 Brian's Brain
7:09 Applications
8:38 Belousov-Zhabotinsky
10:37 Conclusion
11:13 Post Credits Scene
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[@Acerola_t]

The La La Land part is super scuffed cause it kept getting flagged for copyright, sorry about that. I'm pretty unhappy with the overall quality of the visuals in this video, but it's been a good learning experience for how quality will transfer to KZbin. Videos will look better in the future.

[@ineffabletryx6528]

I still thought the la la land part was fantastic :) thank u for the reference

[@TheDormantPsycho]

I lost it at the la la land bit

[@weakamna]

Rendering the videos in 2/4k as well as doing 60hz will probably help with at least some of the compression artefacts.

[@GeorgeN-ATX]

Premium bitrate 1080p is rolling out for KZbin Premium subscribers, obviously the bitrate & general video quality is likely higher for 1440p and even higher for 4K, however I believe KZbin keeps a copy of all originally uploaded video files for all videos so even this older video of yours here will look better for KZbin premium subscribers that set the quality to 1080p premium. I am of-course assuming they will go back through and re-encode older videos at the higher premium bitrate, I certainly hope that will be the case. It would really suck if only new videos got the premium bitrate treatment. I really do think to get people that haven't yet signed up for YT Premium to sign up they need to have the premium bitrate on older videos too. Oh, and we do know that KZbin is actually raising the bitrate for the '1080p premium' option and not just lowering the normal option, or trying to hide it by lowering normal and raising premium. I have heard that some analysis has been done to confirm this.

[@1.4142]

Best part

[@Whalester]

I'm convinced this whole video was a ploy just to convince us to get to his hypnosis program, and I have been hypnotized to do horrible things now. All my future actions lay responsible on Acerola.

[@alst4817]

😂

[@nudemanonbike]

I feel like explaining rule 110 by its binary representation (01101110) would have been easier, and also would have allowed you to explain the other rules fairly quickly.

[@Brunoenribeiro]

Deadpan humor + Dank memes + Persona and Transistor OST + Spetacular CGI knowledge = best channel I discovered this year

[@daifee9174]

Really high quality content, I appreciate your effort

[@killermenpl9619]

Transistor OST somehow fits this perfectly

[@Denester31]

This is the most representative and creative introduction ever created! Great video!

[@borazan]

this deserves many more views, actually inspired me to get my hands dirty with some of these algorithms

[@kylebooth2528]

I made one of these to simulate sand I just didn't know what it was called. It was the only way I could think to optimize it since storing and checking for collisions the traditional way would take way to long.

[@dylanherrera5395]

if you search up "falling sand" youll likely getresults similar to what you were making

[@BlackhoundOne]

Transistor soundtrack in the intro? Bro I love you

[@anmolagrawal386]

This is the coolest channel I've found in a while

[@zwazwezwa]

That was defo one of the coolest things I've ever seen

[@raidoung4100]

totally subscribed ;)) very informative, insightful, very well made !

[@SonorianBnS]

I am always happy when I hear the transistor soundtrack

[@jonathanjoestar176]

this is interesting, i like these obscure math concepts

[@ericweiss8264]

I'm surprised that you discussed the relatively dry fluid simulation work but gave no mention to von Neumann's "Universal Constructor" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_universal_constructor) and the works it inspired. That is a really interesting field in my opinion. Incidentally, John Conway himself said in an interview a few years ago that "The Game of Life" has been given far more attention than it deserves.

[@Acerola_t]

yeah if I was Conway I would hate game of life too as for him it was something he came up with at lunch one time and it overshadows the rest of his great work

[@ericweiss8264]

@@Acerola_t yeah true, the amount of interesting stuff he did is insane

[@juanantoniopalacios620]

Some years ago for an university assignment I had to implement the Belousov-Zhabotinsky Cellular Automata on plain Java, and man it was satisfying when it finally worked

[@nguyenhoangminhtrung2779]

Love this video!

[@SpaghettyLuvsU]

Stupid KZbin keeps choking on all the high-frequency images 😩 Neat stuff, I spent hours playing with the version of Game of Life that came with Windows 95 about 200 years ago.

[@jasonkatz4430]

I hadn’t thought about Chasing Greatness in actual years until I saw your pfp lmao

[@titaniumtomato7247]

I love the transistor soundtrack

[@MrNo0p]

really cool video. But the true miracle is that youtubes encoding didn't destroy this video with it's bitrate limitations.

[@mr_noodler]

Really interesting video!

[@justintyler4814]

Your vids have a good vibe

[@diggin8741]

Ty so much for the flash warning ❤

[@nnchawla]

Really enjoyed the La La Land part, really cool

[@jacobusburger]

Cellular automata are love!

[@NightmareCourtPictures]

And post 2020, Stephan wolfram would create a fundamental theory of physics based on automata (complexity from simple rules) You should look into the wolfram model btw. I’ve been using it to create essentially new inventions and innovations in the program I use. Someone like you could probably do exponentially greater things (not that you haven’t already) Cheers

[@greatwhite59]

Thank You 😊

[@henryfleischer404]

I used to mess around with cellular automata in high school. I mostly used graph paper and a pencil, as I did not know even the slightest bit of programming.

[@ZER0--]

Very good video. Thanks.

[@lorimartabin7992]

Dude, you've got immaculate taste in music

[@alexarmida1430]

The La La Land segment was P E R F E C T !

[@funkdefied1]

LETS GO NOITA. Number 1 game.

[@erikanderson1402]

Use of Cellular automata for modeling fluid flow is actually gaining more popularity these days. It takes a lot of the user input required for creating meshes out of the subjective realm and allows for meshes to be created and simulated automatically.

[@RAndrewNeal]

Anybody else have issues with frequent buffering while the simulations are being shown on screen? It's as if there's too much detail to compress it as much as usual, so is slower to retrieve for viewing.

[@luukvanoijen7082]

yup, same problem here. weird stuff

[@serascratch1028]

7:32: Noita is here

[@renatocesar9972]

the lala land part is just amazing

[@spinagon]

"Old Friends" at the beginning heavily confused me because it's my ringtone for last several years.

[@3corbs810]

the intro rlly fucks with my internet lmao

[@3corbs810]

nice video tho

[@albingrahn5576]

it's actually because of youtube compression, tom scott has a great video on it

[@AltoidsYob]

Shoutout to thatclassic OA render.

[@mousmavire7071]

What if existence is just a cellular automata

[@dariusduesentrieb]

6:03 that's an interesting trombone

[@markoap91]

KZbin hates this video and what it is doing to the bit-rate/video quality.

[@davidmccoy2335]

me: I consent! Acerola: I consent! KZbin Compression: isn't there someone you forgot to ask?

[@intfamous4001]

6:00-7:00 is gold

[@idegteke]

I’m like the clerk in the Ministry of Silly Walks: - Not silly enough! - I’m, also, about to show you one that is! I’m nearly there...

[@kyleeames8229]

7:18 Backed up, paused and ROFLd.

[@trauma._]

the devin nash picture killed me

[@Scar32]

i sometimes faintly see these patterns similar to 9:30 when i close me eyes and then they slowly fade away does anyone else know what im talking about and has experienced the same thing i'm talking about? let me know in the comments im really curious what that is

[@pom791]

its been referred to as prisoner's cinema, or phosphenes

[@nandin1997]

Is that music from the Transistor OST??

[@Extner4]

I'm watching this in the future

[@Iftekhernaser]

Do you think cellular automata is a specific type of Systems with Feedback Loops?

[@ernststravoblofeld]

All hail Hypnotoad...

[@Demon0no]

Oh god, the last one gives me Junji Ito Uzumaki vibes

[@incendiarycrocs7449]

I'm watching this in the future. It is no longer a new video.

[@swarthygiant1463]

Lmao lala land part was perfect

[@XxjazzperxX]

Moore neighbourhood include Moore neighbours

[@starcubey]

Thanks for the unsolicited mnemonic. Now I'll never forget it.

[@Andreas-gh6is]

Why blend in pictures for milliseconds spaced by seconds-long blank screens?

[@Acerola_t]

cause i made this video a long time ago and was bad at editing

[@zackbuildit88]

I don't like your phrasing for the part about most either diverging into chaos or becoming repetitive, there are hundreds of thousands of rules similarly interesting as CGOL (Conway's Game Of Life) and W110, it's just that many are not in totalistic neighborhoods. I've actually been studying cellular automata for around 3 or 4 years now and there's a lot of interesting stuff beyond just those two. Also, there aren't just two types of neighborhoods used in 2D CA, there's effectively infinite, it's just not all of them are focused only on the cells that are adjacent. Brian's Brain isn't a variant of CGOL its a completely unrelated explosive rule

[@pom791]

thats interesting, do you have specific reading material to recommend?

[@zackbuildit88]

@@pom791 well some major rules on the Conwaylife forum are JustFriends, LeapLife, Harvest Moon, and many many many many many many many more. Like, ridiculously many. One i myself am quite fond of is named Merrylife, discovered by me

[@_M_i_C_a__]

i'm also interested in material you could recommend! i'm delving into cellular automaton from a dynamical systems point of view and i've been looking for bibliography

[@zackbuildit88]

@_M_i_C_a__ that's great! sadly, with cellular automata, there are very few academic publications as its so disconnected from most other fields. I'd recommend for actual reading on high level concepts that you start with two books, in order: A New Kind of Science, By Wolfram, and Conway's Game of Life Mathematics and Construction, by a few dozen volunteers of the conwaylife tech community (including some good friends of mine!)

[@_M_i_C_a__]

@@zackbuildit88 thanks!! i'll look into those

[@Kargoneth]

Greetings from the future!

[@reishvedaur]

9:45 just looks like a migraine aura >_

[@krum3155]

KZbin latency didn't like the start of the video

[@Acerola_t]

Lmao yeah I learned a lot about encoding after this vid

[@EnriquePage91]

You’re wrong. The coolest shizzle I’ve ever seen is LENIA - and you should do a video on it 😆😬 - yours was a close second though 😉

[@ErikPelyukhno]

9:25 bitrate go brrrrr

[@eugkra33]

I want to see a 3d version.

[@perplexedsnowmobile]

Society if Matthew Cook had a picture

[@existenceispain_geekthesiren]

youtube compression hates him!

[@echoes6092]

Ah yes, the Moore neighborhood and the Less neighborhood.

[@timetravellingblockhead2122]

0: Actually interesting video on Celluar Automaton Also, DAMN those chemical reaction automaton(s?) hurt my eyes. Sick as fuck

[@jakimoretti7771]

automata is the plural of automaton!

[@jamesperkins2552]

stanislaw Ulam studying something completely unrelated. lol

[@lkledu2]

you know that acerola is a fruit? my mom had a acerola tree in the garden when I was a child

[@black_platypus]

I don't want to be all Hermione "Leviosaah", but "automataah" is plural :P

[@Fecatah]

Hello from the future.

[@fiddlesticks420]

10:20 is the kind of thing i see when i rub my eyes too hard

[@marktubes3419]

my ISP hates your video.

[@Acerola_t]

that's not how it works!

[@anhi399]

Really like your videos but you the images and text are flashed too much in this older one. Like what you've done with your talking "model" in more recent videos--you can see how much the quality of your content has grown in just year watching this video.

[@SilentPrayerCG]

It's me or youtube can't handle cellular automata, because of strong moving noise?

[@Rev_Erser]

not so new