{"id":328,"date":"2004-12-02T09:24:23","date_gmt":"2004-12-02T17:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=328"},"modified":"2011-03-12T12:59:53","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T20:59:53","slug":"3d-cellular-automata-san-jose-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/02\/3d-cellular-automata-san-jose-art\/","title":{"rendered":"3D Cellular Automata, San Jose Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today’s big news is that my San Jose State University computer science student Harry Fu has gotten three-dimensional Belousov-Zhabotinsky-scroll cellular automata (3D BZ CAs for short) working for his Master’s degree writing project.<\/p>\n

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Way to go, Harry. Nobody’s ever seen three-dimensional CAs before except on supercomputers or using special hardware, especially not 3D BZ CAs, and our man Fu has these mofos working as a Java applet running Open GL!!!<\/p>\n

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Note the spontaneously forming scrolls. The first 3D BZ CA picture shows a 3D version of the Hodgepodge Rule, and this one is the 3D Winfree Rule.<\/p>\n

Gnarly much? Live mushrooms, vortices, jellyfish.<\/p>\n

So how can you, too, run Fu’s applet? I’ve updated these links on March 12, 2011. You can go to Fu’s Welcome to CA 3D page <\/a>for an overview.<\/p>\n

And then proceed to o Harry Fu’s CA3D download page<\/a>, which walks you throug three steps <\/p>\n

(1) Make sure you have the latest and greatest version of Java, this would be version 6 today. Anyway, go and get the JRE (Runtime Environment) for your Mac or Windows system. You don't need the full developer’s kit, just the JRE. <\/p>\n

(2) Get JOGL (Java bindings for Open GL). <\/p>\n

(3) Run Fu’s application, ca3D.jar.<\/a><\/p>\n

Geekin’ OUT! And lovin’ it. You realize, of course, that your brain<\/i> is a 3D BZ CA?<\/p>\n

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What else I did yesterday.<\/p>\n

After meeting with Fu, I walked over to downtown San Ho and skated on this cute rink beneath the palms right beside the Fairmont.<\/p>\n

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And then I went into the ADMISSION FREE San Jose Art Museum.<\/a> Frankly, the art there is more interesting to me than anything I saw in Milano. I think spending so much psychic time with Peter Bruegel <\/a> cured me of feeling like I have to care about religious art at all anymore. But that’s another topic.<\/p>\n

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Is this great, or what? It’s “Desire for the Other” by Brian Goggin, also the creator of that amazing Defenestration <\/a> building in San Francisco at Sixth and Howard, with all the furniture jumping out the windows. In this piece we see an airport-lounge-style sofa devouring a wing-back armchair. Note the bulge of its last meal in its gut.<\/p>\n

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This last picture shows a piece by Tony Oursler,<\/a> a really slimy looking object, it’s a curvy fiberglass shape with a video of eyes and mouth projected onto it, the mouth is babbling. In general I despise art that makes noise in a museum, as IMHO it’s unfairly detracting from the many silent works here. But other than being noisy, this is a really cool work.<\/p>\n

Of course it would be gnarlier if it used 3D BZ CAs. If they ever make a movie of one my WARE books, I really hope they use 3D BZ CA projections for the bodies of the boppers.
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