Abstract
Computer displays of colorful and undulating lava-like forms will decorate living rooms of the future. These forms can already be created using mathematical simulations and hardware-assisted, isosurface computer graphics. In particular, the simulations involve “twisted majority rules” computed using a 3-D cellular automation lattice described in this paper.
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Pickover, C.A. Lava lamps in the 21st century. The Visual Computer 10, 173–177 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01900906
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