Langton's Ant - Modes of Behavior

Modes of Behavior

These simple rules lead to complex behavior.

Everybody, mathematician or not, spots three modes of behavior, starting on a completely white grid.

Read more about this topic:  Langton's Ant

Famous quotes containing the words modes of, modes and/or behavior:

    In the final analysis, “style” is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.
    Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

    Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character of the speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.
    Aristotle (384–323 B.C.)

    Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved.
    Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)