Search icon CANCEL
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook

You're reading from   IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook Over 100 hands-on recipes to sharpen your skills in high-performance numerical computing and data science in the Jupyter Notebook

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785888632
Length 548 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Tools
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Cyrille Rossant Cyrille Rossant
Author Profile Icon Cyrille Rossant
Cyrille Rossant
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. A Tour of Interactive Computing with Jupyter and IPython FREE CHAPTER 2. Best Practices in Interactive Computing 3. Mastering the Jupyter Notebook 4. Profiling and Optimization 5. High-Performance Computing 6. Data Visualization 7. Statistical Data Analysis 8. Machine Learning 9. Numerical Optimization 10. Signal Processing 11. Image and Audio Processing 12. Deterministic Dynamical Systems 13. Stochastic Dynamical Systems 14. Graphs, Geometry, and Geographic Information Systems 15. Symbolic and Numerical Mathematics Index

Simulating an elementary cellular automaton

Cellular automata are discrete dynamical systems evolving on a grid of cells. These cells can be in a finite number of states (for example, on/off). The evolution of a cellular automaton is governed by a set of rules, describing how the state of a cell changes according to the state of its neighbors.

Although extremely simple, these models can initiate highly complex and chaotic behaviors. Cellular automata can model real-world phenomena such as car traffic, chemical reactions, propagation of fire in a forest, epidemic propagations, and much more. Cellular automata are also found in nature. For example, the patterns of some seashells are generated by natural cellular automata.

Simulating an elementary cellular automaton

By Richard Ling () - Own work; Location: Cod Hole, Great Barrier Reef, Australia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=293495

An elementary cellular automaton is a binary, one-dimensional automaton, where the rules concern...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at €18.99/month. Cancel anytime