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Geek Culture / Programming a cell simulator

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Zotoaster
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Posted: 24th Apr 2008 02:12
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Ever since I discovered Conway's Game of Life I've wanted to take the idea further. I thought I'd ask here to find out what kind of things have been done like this, and in particular, getting the grid to process cells as if they were working things, that had membraines etc.

I've tried this before, but with no success . I thought maybe having many different types of grid cell types that sorta worked like stem cells, and could arrange themselfs in the right order to maintain a perfect bubble.

Anyone got any more info on this, or any demos? I think it would be totally awesome if it could be pulled off succesfully.

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 24th Apr 2008 23:29 Edited at: 24th Apr 2008 23:34
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This would probably be best as a World of Sand variant. You would have different materials for membranes, DNA, glucose, etc. which would react in a similar fashion to the real substances. I would make DNA a special (i.e. not a normal material) object, which can be scripted to perform a sequence of operations such as:

Produce outer membrane
Wait a bit, die if no sugar etc.
Add antigens
Wait a bit, die if no sugar etc.
Produce nucleus membrane
Wait a bit, die if no sugar etc.
Duplicate self, evict duplicate.

You could write your own viruses to attack things without their antigen, and convert the matter into its own type.


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Zotoaster
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Posted: 24th Apr 2008 23:55
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The great thing about cellular automata is that you can check adjacent cells. I don't know if you are talking about the same thing (I will check up on it), but then I ask how a membraine cell came to exist at a particular place, without having any direct contact with information about the age of the cell, etc.

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