A research team led by Kim Sung Nam, an institute head at the Faculty of Information Science and Technology, has developed a game program by using cellular automata, which enables study of artificial life.
It is not too much to say that the history of evolution of life is just that of its adaptation to the changing environment. The environment acts on organisms as an input signal. It is hard for them to survive if they fail to receive the signals. Organisms analyse the input of the environment and seek to cope with it.
This artificial life game uses cellular automata to make sure that life moves alive and grows for a long time by changing the life or death rule. This program has an environment for simulation of an artificial life game, and offers diversity of patterns that are generated as the shape and transition rule of 2 dimensional cellular automata are changed.
They have laid a scientific foundation for the realization of a life machine by enabling the game program to give the most concise and persuasive explanation of cellular automata so that people with no professional knowledge of it can understand it.
The program consists of a simulation and application block, a pattern generation block for providing the diversity of patterns by varying the shape of 2-dimensional cellular automata, and a storage and management block for storing and managing the periodic and nonperiodic patterns of a life machine generated by changing environment.
Not only does the program help you to understand the essence of life in the education of artificial life, it can be applied to the sectors of electronics industry and textile engineering.
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