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    Artificial life: Random walk
    Artificial life: Random walk
    Artificial life: Random walk
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    Artificial life: Random walk

    By Mietek Szyszkowicz

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    In the year 1827, the Scottish botanist Robert Brown investigated through his microscope the movements of pollen grains immersed in water. Brown tried different kinds of particles taken from dried plants and they all moved when suspended in water. He suspected that the pollen grains were moving because they were alive. Brown also investigated particles that had never been part of anything living, such as dust from rocks – they all moved suspended in water. This motion, named after Brown, the Brownian motion, is caused by randomly moving water molecules that bounce with pollen grains. This microscopic motion of tiny particles has nothing to do with life, although the process simulates one of life’s affirmation - movement. Thus the Brownian motion may be seen as the first artificial life experiment.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMietek Szyszkowicz
    Release dateAug 5, 2014
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      Artificial life - Mietek Szyszkowicz

      Chapter 1

      *Introduction*

      # Preface #

      This book is about artificial life phenomenon. A single point is used to represent and to simulate an alive individual virtual animal. The point moves and traces its movements on the computer screen. We have grid of cells (pixels on the monitor) which are visited by the point. The observer recognizes such behavior as sort of life. Different kinds of such processes are presented and illustrated in the series Artificial Life of three books: random walk (Book I – this volume), virtual ant (Book II) and virtual kret (Book III). The programs in Java to perform such experiments are included. The following general characteristics can be used to categorize these processes: using or not memory, walking in non-restricted directions, and walking along a predefined path. Thus we consider and present different combination of the following rules and processes.

      Random walk (Book I) – in this case the virtual animal does not use memory (the point doesn’t remember its previous steps) and is allowed to choose (randomly) any new location. The point is free to go in each directions – no any restriction on the move direction. We may put some restrictions on directions and add some memory. This new futures changes drastically behaviour of our virtual animal.

      A virtual ant

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