Animations are known to be a fast and very efficient way of dissemination of knowledge, insights, and understanding of complex systems. Through the animations, quite complicated research can be easily shared among all scientific disciplines.
While starting with complex systems descriptions of Dynamic Recrystallization in metals about almost 30 years ago, it had become very obvious almost instantly that animations carry with themselves a huge expressive power.
This recently led to development of the GoL-N24 open-source Python software that enables to create animations effortlessly. The user just defines the input parameters and the rest is done automatically. Share your software too.
This question is dedicated to all such animations and open-source-source software, which are producing them, in the area of complex systems.
Everyone is welcomed to share their own research in the form of animations with the relevant description.
Exploring emergence: Python program GoL-N24 simulating the 'Game of Life' using 8 neighbors from 24 possible
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/365477118
This is the program that allows exploration of the generalized 'Game of Life' (GoL) cellular automaton, which is shown to be Turing equivalent and express the endless complexity along with countless emergent structures.
The emergent logic-gate OR implemented in the 'Game of Life' cellular automaton developed by John H. Conway in the 70ies, as the prototypical example of a complex system literally generating endless numbers of emergent structures.
Four glider-guns generate gliders, two central ones are inputs, both have unblocked glider streams which means that they are in the state one. The output is equal to one. The mutual collisions of gliders among themselves and with intentionally positioned obstacles decide the final output.
Other logic-gates AND and NOT can be implemented in the similar ways. This means that the processor and memory can be built within massive-parallel computing environments.
See other inputs here.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/367380336_Emergent_computations_simulations_of_logic-gate_OR_using_cellular_automaton_GoL-N24_implemented_in_Python
The AND and NOT gates are available in the research section called code and the other animations are available in the section data.
I have written numerous 3D interactive system models using OpenGL like this nuclear reactor trainer http://dudleybenton.altervista.org/projects/3Dmodels/molten_salt_reactor.gif and some just for fun like this galloping imperial walker http://dudleybenton.altervista.org/projects/3Dmodels/galloping_walker.gif but I can't imagine why anyone would use python for anything because of this (get ready to laugh) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c33AZBnRHks
This observation of the second-order emergents occurring spontaneously from almost every randomly generated initial conditions is one of the key observations of emergent, self-organizing system, which is giving very reliable emergent output in the form of unexpected convergence towards a predefined shape and function.
An important note. All animations in the format '*.png' are animated using the standard APNG, which is not supported by every program viewing animated picture sequences.
Surely, every modern web browser is when viewing locally downloaded '*.png' in APNG coding capable to display the animation. (In the area of definition of the web adress, it is enough to write symbols '//'. The web browser will offer an option to see local files stored on a hard drive.)
An array of the identical emergents called 'ship-tiles' is simulated in this animation, which demonstrates abundance of emergents in the modified GoL neighborhood (see the inset) using program GoL-N24 (open-source Python code is available here on RG).
Note: Beware that the correct initial source code name is: 'N469540-ship-tiles.gol' , unlike to the name in the animation.
This animation is depicting an array of identical emergents observed withing one specific neighborhood of GoL-N24 software. This emergent is called the frog.
See details in the review:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/373044641_EMERGENT_INFORMATION_PROCESSING_OBSERVATIONS_EXPERIMENTS_AND_FUTURE_DIRECTIONS/stats
I do not as yet have an animation but I was wondering if GoL-N24 might be used to animate tiling of the Soma Cube. The pic is "sort of" illustrating an idea of the cooperation of the pieces to form complexes of pieces that minimize the exposure of piece faces.
There are much simpler tilings than Soma cube such a s tiling a deficient 3x3 with dominoes. This paper discusses methods to deterministically find tiling solutions.
"A NEW MATHEMATICAL MODEL FOR TILING FINITEREGIONS OF THE PLANE WITH POLYOMINOES" https://cdm.ucalgary.ca/article/view/62866/55660
A comparison contrast of complex cooperation with GoL (or similar) and deterministic solutions might be interesting.
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