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    • April 27, 2008

    It’s like a grapefruit.

    — srikanth @ 10:01 am, GMT +0000 ( 1209290506 ) Play

    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.


    14 Responses to “It’s like a grapefruit.”

    1. varuns88
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      The algorithmic beauty of seashells?


    2. BiGFooT

      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.


    3. Dibyo
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      Sierpinki’s Gasket as a modification of Pascal’s Triangle.


    4. shivathilak

      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.


    5. Sandesh

      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…


    6. Anand Shankar

      Fibonacci??


    7. varuns88
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      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..


    8. varuns88
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      oops..i meant Connect..


    9. Ajay Parasuram
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      Would you guys mind resetting the scores ?


    10. Tathagata Chatterjee
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      Cellular automaton

      Regards,
      Tathagata Chatterjee


    11. priyananda

      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.


    12. yaksha
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      rule 30 mathematica . a simple rule which can produce complex structures in nature.


    13. pratap

      Cellular Automata (Stephen Wolfram)


    14. Fractals


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