Elegant design for a mechanical Langton

Tim Hutton - 2017-03-10 14:23:13+0000 - Updated: 2017-03-10 14:23:13+0000

Elegant design for a mechanical Langton's Ant.

Originally shared by Jim MacArthur

This is a mechanical implementation of the mathematical automaton called Langton's Ant. Apologies for the poor video quality - I need more lights or a better camera. Numberphile video about Langton's Ant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWBToaXK5T0 "Complexity of Langton's Ant", the paper which introduces the logic gates: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166218X00003346

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