Tag: cellular automata

A GUI Front-end for Cellular Automata Generator

Written by on March 4, 2016 in LISP, Music, Programming with 0 Comments
A GUI Front-end for Cellular Automata Generator

In my last post, I explained how we can use Cellular Automata (CA) in Opusmodus to create music. For today’s post, I wanted to build a simple UI to control the parameters used in the CA example. This posed a practical difficulty. Opusmodus does not yet provide a GUI library. Even Clozure CL, on which Opusmodus […]

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Using Cellular Automata to Generate Music

Written by on February 28, 2016 in LISP, Music, Programming with 0 Comments
Using Cellular Automata to Generate Music

Cellular automata are a powerful computational formalism. Stephen Wolfram’s book A New Kind of Science provides a thorough study of these devices. Not surprisingly, Wolfram Mathematica has great support for working with them. For example, the following figure shows the evolution of Rule 30 over 50 steps, plotted using ArrayPlot function (in Mathematica): Using cellular automata for […]

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