Abstract Mathematical Art (BYTE magazine, December 1986)

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Kenneth E. Perry

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This 1986 article describes a BASIC program for creating cellular automata.

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COMPUTER-GENERATED mathematical art is art created by pure mathematics as opposed to other forms of computer graphics. In this article, the mathematical entities are “one-dimensional cellular automata.” I have found their study exciting and astounding.

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I was disposed straightway to search for other truths; and when I had represented to myself the object of the geometers, which I conceived to be a continuous body, or a space indefinitely extended in length, breadth, and height or depth, divisible into divers parts which admit of different figures and sizes, and of being moved or transposed in all manner of ways, (for all this the geometers suppose to be in the object they contemplate,) I went over some of their simplest demonstrations.

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https://archive.org/details/eu_BYTE-1986-12_OCR/page/n197/mode/2up