Turing Patterns
I have always held a fascination in process representation. Whenever a graduate course called for a simulation, I could seldom resist the urge to graphically represent some element of that process. More often than not these explorations were quickly dismissed by my peers as being the product of too much free time. My reward, though, was usually a greater understanding of the dynamics of the underlying system so the dismissals never did much to deter.
The following representations take as their subject the footprint of a very simple instructional code. What I have created is an eight instruction Turing machine that is programmed through color images rather than ASCII text. The images are able to be compiled and executed on the command console much like any other language. Ironically, though, it is the source here that commands the attention. This is a playful exploration that I hope to further at some point. Future versions may completely do away with text, making both the controlling program and the resulting output image based.
