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\n \t<\/a>\n\t\t <\/div>\n In the future series of FAQ-s, we are highlighting different aspects of the Corpora project. In this session, \u00c1kos Mar\u00f3y, Software artist, member of the doubleNegatives group and Beata Oborny biologist having a discussion on the basic nature of the Corpora creature.<\/p>\nBO: What are the basic elements of the Corpora creature? One dimensional rods? Or some sort of 3D structure, like a cube which could be bent for this purpose?<\/strong><\/p>\n BO: How to address this virtual being? For example, when I would say “X is growing”? X=Corpora?<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00c1M: We usually refer it as Corpora Structure.<\/p>\n BO: You are using the term \u201cevolution\u201d in a different way than we, the biologists do. There is nothing bad with this \u2013 physicists are using the term also in a different context, by meaning simply \u201cchange\u201d with this term. Yet, if we are approaching it from a biologist perspective and looking for an analogy in the field of biology, we have to conclude that what is happening to this creature, is could not be described with the word evolution, but ontogenesis, escpecailly the ontogenesis of a psychical creature.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00c1M: Yes, you are right, this process is much more an ontogenesis, then an evolution by biologist’s terms. But we are using the English term \u201cevolve\u201d for this process, which means singular growth, evolution.<\/p>\n BO: You are also using the term \u201cCellular Automaton<\/a>\u201d in a different way than originally intended \u2013 or at least, this is how I have seen the word used in your texts: the cellular automaton is discrete in space and time, and is made of identical, regular cells; and the cells might have a limited number of status (finite state machine). \u00c1M: We are using the term of Cellular Automaton in the sense, that Cellular Automatons are systems mode of a large number of cells, and all cells are making local decisions, based on the local set of information. That\u2019s why I would not say Corpora is much different form a regular Cellular Automaton.<\/p>\n OB: If I get this right, all nodes in this structure is in fact considered to be a sensor, therefore \u201cperceives\u201d its surroundings, and the status of adjacent nodes. How does these \u201cvirtual sensors\u201d relate to the real ones, which are set up in the actual field, and taking measurements on temperature, wind-force, etc?<\/strong><\/p>\n M\u00c1: In Yamaguchi we set up the system like this; for each nodes to use the nearest \u201creal\u201d sensors data. (As we know the location of the node in the space, we can relate to the closest real, psychical sensor, therefore we could decide which one is the closest.) Now, here in Venice we are planning to interpolate the information we get form the sensors, therefore we could project a much detailed image to every space-node, based on the measurements.<\/p>\n BO: Does the algorithm calculates if what the virtual sensors might perceive at the a certain point of the space, based on the data which comes from the real sensors? Is this going to be their own input?<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>\u00c1M: See as above. This year, in Venice, we would like to do it like this, if we can manage.<\/p>\n BO: It is hard for me to understand, why you call the pitches in a spatial structure \u201csomething which is pitch\/point-like\u201d a \u201ccell\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>\u00c1M: We call them \u201cnodes\u201d actually.<\/p>\n BO: I don\u2019t think it is a good metaphor then. In a biological structured creature, the spatial polygons creates by these points could be considered as \u201ccells\u201d. Even by the terms of the model terminology, it is hardly fits the description, since in the \u201cCellular Automaton\u201d the cells are not point-like, and join each other by their side (surface), and not hovering far away from each other.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>\u00c1M: Yes, we might only call these cells by the definition of \u201cCellular Automaton\u201d (that\u2019s how we call them actually). The spatial system is little different, not grid-like, but still has a distinctive, univocal relation amongst the adjacent nodes.<\/p>\n
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\n\u00c1M:The basic elements are simple nodes, \u201ccells\u201d, which are linked together. The links are defined by relative distance \u2013 those which are close enough to each other, are becomes linked.<\/p>\n
\nCorpora has \u201ccells\u201d and is an \u201cautomaton\u201d in the same time \u2013 but for me, it is all, but a Cellular Automaton \u2013 at least not in the wide sense of this term.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nSo, what makes Corpora different to the traditional model of Cellular Automaton are:<\/p>\n\n
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