April 27, 2008
It’s like a grapefruit.
What is the (alleged) connection between the creature in (1) and the strange-looking pattern in (2)?
Clue: We’ve been here before.
Cracked by: BiGFooT , shivathilak , Sandesh , varuns88 , Tathagata Chatterjee , priyananda , yaksha and pratap.
Answer: 1) The conus textile
2) A Rule 30 cellular automata
There is a claim that the pigments on the surface of the Conus’s shell interact with each other exactly as the adjacent elements of the Rule 30 Cellular Automaton do.
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April 27th, 2008 at 11:15 am, GMT -0700 ( 1209320135 )
The algorithmic beauty of seashells?
April 27th, 2008 at 11:36 am, GMT -0700 ( 1209321387 )
1 : Textile Cone Shell
2 : The tile triangle as generated by Rule 107
Wolfram proposes that 1 is created by the rules of 2 , as per Cellular Automata theory.
April 27th, 2008 at 9:58 pm, GMT -0700 ( 1209358685 )
Sierpinki’s Gasket as a modification of Pascal’s Triangle.
April 27th, 2008 at 10:21 pm, GMT -0700 ( 1209360112 )
1) Textile cone shell.
2) its an intricate triangular pattern found on these shells.
the connect is “God, Stephen Wolfram, and Everything Else” where he explains his theory of cellular automata and uses the cone shell as an example in explaining it.
April 28th, 2008 at 3:19 am, GMT -0700 ( 1209377980 )
Pic 1: Is some kind of molluscs.
Pic 2: Sierpinski\’s Triangles
connection is CA-Cellular Automata, a theory propounded by Stephen Wolfram(guy in the clue).
Actual connection: Sierpinski\’s Triangles are built based on neighboring triangles\’ numbers and positions.
Wolfram\’s theory is that nature also follows theory of CA and the triangles on molluscs are also dependent on neighboring triangles…
April 28th, 2008 at 4:26 am, GMT -0700 ( 1209381999 )
Fibonacci??
April 28th, 2008 at 4:50 am, GMT -0700 ( 1209383450 )
1.Conus Textile
2.Wolfram’s Rule 30 - used as a random number generator in Mathematica.
Coonect -> A pattern resembling 2 appears on 1’s shell..
April 28th, 2008 at 4:53 am, GMT -0700 ( 1209383597 )
oops..i meant Connect..
April 28th, 2008 at 6:05 am, GMT -0700 ( 1209387958 )
Would you guys mind resetting the scores ?
April 28th, 2008 at 6:18 am, GMT -0700 ( 1209388686 )
Cellular automaton
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Tathagata Chatterjee
April 28th, 2008 at 6:56 am, GMT -0700 ( 1209391013 )
The texture pattern of the mollusk can be predicted by a cellular automata, using the Principle of Computational Equivalence, as told by Stephen Wolfram in A New Kind of Science.
Or some such nonsense.
April 28th, 2008 at 9:26 am, GMT -0700 ( 1209399968 )
rule 30 mathematica . a simple rule which can produce complex structures in nature.
April 28th, 2008 at 3:23 pm, GMT -0700 ( 1209421396 )
Cellular Automata (Stephen Wolfram)
April 28th, 2008 at 3:32 pm, GMT -0700 ( 1209421963 )
Fractals