Cool (sort of anyway) pictures after the boring text!

Yes! The first draft of this big thesis chapter is finally done. A bit later than expected but then I did do a thorough edit of Els' latest chapter and ... found our KILLER APP(lication)! Well, more like a henchman or tax evader app than a killer app but a pretty cool one nonetheless.

We've made some really cool improvements and optimalisations on Greg Turk's work, but I always thought our biggest contribution was that we broke open the narrow focus of his doctorate thesis so that it'd include all possible cellular automata instead of just reaction-diffusion systems.

We made some pretty spiffy images with those other automata, like the bunny on the front page of this journal, but the reaction-diffusion systems were still the only things that gave any cool realistic patterns. Until now! I present to you, the oxidation pictures:


Oxidation of copper


Rust


More localized rust.

Personally, I think they blow the reaction-diffusion stuff away. Yay!