WOLFRAM MEETS PEANO

Aleksey Tikhonov
Altsoph’s blog
Published in
1 min readDec 6, 2012

How do you think a one-dimensional Wolfram’s automata will look like, if we map it into Peano (Hilbert) curve?

Have no idea? Me too. So I decided to check it out:

I could have done this in a hour or so using python, but I had never sought for easy ways, so I tried to make the online interactive visualization.

It took a dozen of nights and a lot of nerve, considering the fact I didn’t mess with clientside development for ten years, and looks like it became even much more chaotic since then. But now I know some kung fu.

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