Robert Krawczyk

Ring Cross 10070112p, 2005	Ring Cross 22070112p, 2005	Star Cross 05140110s, 2005	Star Cross 05140112s, 2005

Development of a System of Ornament Based on Cellular Automata These images each show one variation exploring the interpretation of history in the simulation based on a cellular automata algorithm. Cellular automata simulates the essence of growth; the death and birth of cells over some number of generations within a simple two dimensional lattice. The final patterns produced have been of interest to designers for a long time but this research attempts to further develop the transitional information by recording the history of the growth. The history is recorded by accumulating the number of times a cell is visited; this number is then used as a size factor for each cell and it also determines its elevation so to create a relief. Twenty-seven different patterns were fully investigated from the initial generation of 450; each in 12 variations. The variations include a variety of cell shapes: circle, square, diamond, octagon, a cross, and an 8-point star. These were all attempts to translate the raw cellular automata results into an architectural design element. Finally the cell shapes were joined to form larger entwined three-dimensional pattern.

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