Notes

Chapter 2: The Crucial Experiment


Section 1: How Do Simple Programs Behave?

Another initial condition [for rule 90] Audio representation [of cellular automata] Bitwise optimizations [of cellular automata] Built-in cellular automaton function Cellular automaton rules as formulas Comments on Mathematica functions History [of Pascal's triangle mod k] Implementing cellular automata Mathematical interpretation of cellular automata More colors [in additive cellular automata] More general [cellular automaton] rules Pascal's triangle and rule 90 [Patterns from] bitwise functions [Patterns from] other integer functions Rule 110 Rule 30 Self-similarity [of rule 90] Special-purpose hardware [for cellular automata] Tests of randomness

Section 2: The Need for a New Intuition

Applications to design Intuition from practical computing Reactions of scientists

Section 3: Why These Discoveries Were Not Made Before

Atomism Close approaches [to core discoveries] Code 10 History of cellular automata My papers My work on cellular automata Ornamental art Recognition of art The concept of rules The importance of explicitness Understanding nature

From Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Science [citation]