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Langton created the Langton Ant and Langton Loop , both landmark simple artificial life simulations in addition to his Lambda measure, a dimensionless measure of complexity in an evolutionary system- most interesting systems tend to converge on a particular lambda value.


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Some further reading:
(references borrowed from Edge Of Chaos )
  • Christopher G. Langton. "Computation at the edge of chaos". ''Physica D'', 42, 1990 .

  • J. P. Crutchfield and K. Young, "Computation at the Onset of Chaos", in ''Entropy, Complexity, and the Physics of Information'', W. Zurek, editor, SFI Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, VIII, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts (1990) pp. 223-269.

  • Melanie Mitchell, Peter T. Hraber, and James P. Crutchfield. '' Revisiting the edge of chaos: Evolving cellular automata to perform computations ''. ''Complex Systems'', 7:89--130, 1993.

  • Melanie Mitchell, James P. Crutchfield and Peter T. Hraber. ''[http://www.santafe.edu/projects/evca/Papers/DynCompEdge.html Dynamics, Computation, and the "Edge of Chaos": A Re-Examination]''

  • ''Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution'' by Stuart Kauffman



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