Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #05141
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Bob Shannon bshannon@tiac.net
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 19:01:50 -0400
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Something funny with the 1382 voltage triggers?
Steven Bolt wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jul 1999 JVernonM@aol.com wrote:
>
> > > > Yes, I see your point. One could even say that Tilden himself
> > > > relies on the trial and error method to make these things.
> >
> > > Afaik Mark T. tries very hard to do better than that.
>
> > Ok, I'll give you that one. But, I think the "emergent behaviors"
> > still fall into the trial and error category.
>
> The idea is to make such behaviours happen by design rather than
> accident, but I haven't the foggiest how that might be achieved.
> And everybody else appears to be just as much in the dark, so far.
Actually the criteria for a system to exhibit emergent behaviors is fairly
easy to define. If you study chaos theory, and chaos producing circuits
you will find that as soon as we have 3 (or more) variables in a non-linear
system, chaos is a given and emergent behaviors are produced.
All the rules and design guidelines needed can be found in the abstracts
from
the many papers dealing with chaotic encryption and synchronization. There
is a ton of information out there on this subject.
I have translated some of these principles into a scalable microcore/bicore
array
that drives my 'Motion' contest entery. It works.
I'll be putting it on-line quite soon.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
eGroups.com home: http://www.egroups.com/group/alt-beam
http://www.egroups.com
- Simplifying group communications
Home