Finding Randomness in Order
Jim Crutchfield is interested in finding order in chaos and vice-versa. This is the type of research our Computational Mechanics group is working on.
Pattern forming systems, such as the cellular automaton shown in black and white, generate structures - structures that are often hidden. The initial black and white spacetime diagram is the raw configurations generated by elementary cellular automaton rule 22. The colored image reveals a series of randomly diffusing particles by filtering out a background domain.
For more information on Elementary Cellular Automata please see our Computational Mechanics Group website.