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Introduction

Laws of nature, laws of motion

• Particles, systems, states, changes, time
• Mathematics of randomness

Readings

• Freeth, Tony. “Decoding an Ancient Computer.” Scientific American 301, no. 6 (2009): 76–83. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26001660
• Rucker, Rudy. “The Wolfram Physics Project.” Rudy Rucker’s Blog (blog). Accessed April 24, 2020. http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2020/04/22/the-wolfram-physics-project/.

Studio

Setting up things:

• Basic html, JavaScript, and p5.js (resp. Processing)
• https://editor.p5js.org
• Random number generators
• First example: Random walks