How to Create Complexity from Simple Rules

Hunar Ahmad — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 08:58:48 +0000

The following is a very simple bared-down code necessary to produce Mandelbrot in your browser

  <canvas id="gardun" width="1000" height="1000"></canvas>
  <script>
  m = document.getElementById("gardun").getContext("2d")
  atom = function(x,y,c){m.fillStyle=c; m.fillRect(x,y,3,3)}
  for(y=1; y<1000; y++){
  for(x=1; x<1000; x++){
  dx = (x-500)/2000-0.12
  dy = (y-500)/2000-0.82
  a = dx
  b = dy
  for(t=1; t<200; t++){
  d = (a*a)-(b*b)+dx
  b = 2*(a*b)+dy
  a = d
  H = d>200
  if(H){atom(x,y,"rgb("+ t*3 +","+ t +","+ t*0.5 +")"); break}
  }}}
  </script>

The step by step tutorial and explanation is also available on YouTube for those interested:
https://youtu.be/mzizK6ms-gY

Artificial Particle Life

Hunar Ahmad — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 23:20:55 +0000

Recently, I made an educational simulation project on what is known as Particle Life to showcase how complexity can arise from simplicity. Particle Life is like Conway’s game of life but in Conway’s game of life the effect of the particles are confined to their surrounding neighbors only while in these simulations particles have effects on each other over longer distances. Also, the interactions rely on Newtonian like attraction/repulsion forces among the interacting particles.

Video Tutorial: https://youtu.be/0Kx4Y9TVMGg
Source code: https://github.com/hunar4321/particle-life

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How to Create Complexity from Simple Rules

Artificial Particle Life