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I just found this link<\/a> about the upcoming meeting on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, which will soon take place in Boston.<\/p>\n One interesting speaker will be Radhika Nagpal<\/a> from the Self-Organizing Systems Research <\/a> who will talk about Global-to-Local Programming: Design and Analysis for Amorphous Computers<\/a>. Among others Radhika Nagpal e.g. beautifully used mathematical Origami<\/a> folding rules in her Ph.D. thesis<\/a> in order to create a global shape via local rules and few boundary assumptions. <\/p>\n (For the mathematicians a rough interpretation: If I understood correctly (?) the Origami rules are assigned to the vertices of a graph which is immersed in the plane. The vertex positions and combinatorics (cell-to-cell contact) and two tags called orientation and surface (inner\/outer skin) is changing according to the local folding rules (i.e. which are depending on the state of the neighbours) and a global variable which one could call “approximate position” of the vertex, since it is given by kind of randomized distance to the boundary). <\/p>\n Radhika Nagpals interest lies in understanding biological processes and she seems to have an inclination to genetical engineering – at least her site is linking to the IGEM team<\/a> of the IGEM.<\/a><\/p>\n -> watch the selforganized sandman in the <\/a>spider man 3 trailer (unfortunately he has only a very short appearance in the trailer) which is nicely rendered and modeled -although I found that he sometimes looks a bit like sand sticking to a fallen down ice cream ball.<\/p>\n -> an art project investigating self organization: the new ecology of things<\/a><\/p>\n
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