SPEAKER: Roger Critchlow
TITLE: The Complexity of Watching Paint Dry
LOCATION: 624 Agua Fria Conference Room
TIME: Wed Dec 14, 12:30p
Lunch will be available for purchase
ABSTRACT
I'll discuss how nanoparticles suspended in a thin layer of liquid form
self-organized patterns and present several simulations of the system produced
with different tools. The system itself is interesting as an extremely simple
physical process which produces a variety of complex morphologies. So I like it
as model of how simple complexity can be. The implementations of the simulation
are interesting because they vary roughly a thousandfold in their efficiency.
The fastest is the Processing language (
http://processing.org), developed for
computer art, visualization, and procedural graphics.
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