A tech takeover this week with special guest Fran Buontempo talking about Cellular Automata – a cool techie toy for exploring the links between computation, complexity and life, or at the very least a sort-of interesting way of generating some moving patterns.

Those promised links:

How to code your way out of a paper bag – Fran’s book on all kinds of AI stuff Cellular automaton on Wikipedia. Also check out Conway’s Game of Life. Cellular Automata at Stanford – very in-depth CA info Wolfram’s Cellular Automata page – nice diagrams of 1-d CAs Interactive Conway’s Game of Life – Andy B’s smolpxl game Crowd Your Way Out of a Paper Bag – video of Fran’s recent talk on this stuff