Applet: The Hodge-Podge Machine – Fun With Self Organizing Cellular Automata
Posted on December 24th, 2007 by headwedge
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How To Use Spinners: (HodgePodge) JSpinner & SpinnerNumberModel – Picking & Packaging The Widget To Change Infectivity
Posted on December 23rd, 2007 by headwedge
As part of the hodge-podge specification [link] a widget for changing the infectivity was specified. The initial spec was for a slider, however, a more appropriate choice would be to allow int values to be entered by the user as well as to increase/decrease values in steps. The Java JSpinner widget using the SpinnerNumberModel is [...]
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Specification: Cellular Automata – The Hodge Podge Machine & The Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction
Posted on December 5th, 2007 by headwedge
Background
The Hodge-Podge machine is an example of a 2D Cellular Automata which mimics chemical reactions. Created by Martin Gerhardt and Heike Schuster of the University of Beilefeld and popularised by A.K.Dewdney in his ‘Computer Recreations’ columns in the Scientific American, August, 1988 magazine. It was designed to mimic a particular kind of ‘heterogeneous catalytic reaction’ [...]
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