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Complexity measurements... #41

Open jamesallenevans opened 7 years ago

jamesallenevans commented 7 years ago

What about alternative methods of configuration besides just agglomeration, which could be tested by using Kolmogorov Complexity. If you try to compress the city according to a variety of different compression "grammars" (coarse and fine agglomeration, but also periodic patterns) and then assess the relative compressibility of each. This might allow more than agglomeration at many scales alone.