文档介绍：Computing in Nonlinear Media
and Automata Collectives
Andrew Adamatzky
University of the West of England, Bristol
Institute of Physics Publishing
Bristol and Philadelphia
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Contents
Preface
1 Reaction–diffusion, excitation putation
puting
Waves in reaction–diffusion and excitable media
Cellular automata
Modelling reaction–diffusion and excitable media
in nonlinear active media
Reaction–diffusion media with smart molecules
2 Subdivision of space
Voronoi diagram
Planar Voronoi diagram
Discrete Voronoi diagram
Bisectors