Richard McKenna and Kevin Kay, Stony Brook University
Cellular Automata and the Game of Life provides a playground for live music generation, as well as a toolbox for the composition process.
Mapped left to right, like a keyboard, is a musical scale. The number of cells activated vertically in a column determines the amplitude of the pitch.
The rules of the game are shown below, which determine how cells become active (alive) or inactive (dead).
Wave Type:
Filter type:
Filter Cutoff:
500
Octaves:
Starting Octave:
Starting Note:
Scale:
Drawing Option:
Underpopulation:
2
If the number of neighbors is less than this number, the cell will die.
Overpopulation:
3
If the number of neighbors is more than this number, the cell will die.
Resurrection:
3
The number of neighbors it takes for a dead cell to turn living.