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Wolfram was there in 2002. Pretty cool examples though.
by programnature 10y ago
Wolfram was there in 2002. Pretty cool examples though.
- chriswarbo 10y agoIf you mean that Wolfram advocates programmatic generation of structures, then that's true; the approach is very different though. These appear to come from a continuous optimisation process, i.e. starting with a "bad" design and iteratively tweaking it. In contrast, Wolfram tends to focus on discrete systems (e.g. cellular automata) and perform the search interactively, like a form of superoptimisation rather than numerical optimisation. The examples I'd cite are from the 1990s, e.g. evolved antennas ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolved_antenna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolved_antenna ) and integrated circuits ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolvable_hardware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolvable_hardware )