Showing posts with label Wolfram. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wolfram. Show all posts

Colonel 'Sierpinski' Korn

Prodding the envelope by disallowing "backward" moves i.e. the relentless march of progress must be to the right, an old familiar Friend predictably emerges.
I pushed it to 40 iterations, just for amusements sake, but it was clear after 18 that we were entering a Sierpinski Gasket, and once in, you never come out.

[EDIT] That is obviously not a Sierpinski, I don't know what I was thinking. It is familiar though, and I think I have seen it somewhere in Wolfram's Big Book of Diagrams.*

[EDIT] After scanning Wolfram's oeuvre, I'd like to say Rule 110, except its not. I think it was just the semi-regular triangles that are throwing me off,

By disallowing "backward" moves, we disallow iteration on anything except the previous generations output.
Unfortunately, the interesting parts of the Dho-Na curve are the parts on the -x side which is unreachable this way. I only calculated the (+x,+y) section, as the -x quadrants are unreachable, and (+x,-y) is just a flopped image.
The next step is to apply Thue-Morse to the tree algorithm, I think.
I was entertained by this paper on Koch, Thue Morse and Turtles, an almost Carrolean combination.

[EDIT] This is why you don't draw this stuff by hand - there a couple of typos in the above gasket.
Holes in the Gasket!

...For a moment I wanted the title to link to the Colonel Korn reference, rather than to the blog post, which suggests the need for some sort of pointers-to-pointers in hypertext. But than I came to my senses.

*'A new kind of science', Wolfram (2002), also known as the Liber Glyphic Iteraticus.