Self-Replicating Machines

Will Stevens

Multimedia

Here are some images and animations of computing and constructing machines.


Click here for a zip file containing an animation of an SRM in Nodes beginning its first replication cycle (903 Kb).


An animation showing several generations of activity in Nodes, beginning from a single SRM.


Part of the universe after many generations of the SRM. Click here for a larger version of this image (5 Kb).


An SRM in CBlocks just beginning to make a replica of itself. Click here for a larger version of this image (32 Kb).


An animation of the CBlocks SRM making a replica of itself.


An animation of the CBlocks3D self-replicating programmable constructor making a copy of itself.


A kinematic turing machine. Click here for a larger version of this image (30 Kb).