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Resources on the topic of digital morphogenesis (creating form with code). Includes links to major articles, code repos, creative projects, books, software, and more.
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Spinodal decomposition #18

Open mjrlowe opened 4 years ago

mjrlowe commented 4 years ago

I saw this post on the generative subreddit the other day and thought that the algorithm belongs here.

It has a Wikipedia page, though I don't understand most of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinodal_decomposition.

jasonwebb commented 4 years ago

Interesting, thanks for sharing! I agree, this should be included - maybe under the "Math and physics topics" section.

From what I can tell, this is almost like a anti-reaction-diffusion. One substance has already diffused through another substance, and this algorithm basically models how they would separate out again if they experience some sort of phase transition (like being heated above a certain point).