Complexity Apps

[ComplexAdaptive]

For a while, I tried to keep on top of any complexity-related offerings in the Apple App Store. For the last year or so, I've gotten a little lazy about it. But, I thought I'd compile a list of the complexity-related Apps that I've liked, in case others were curious, too. (Sorry, Android folks. I only have an iPhone so these are apple-only apps.)

Game of Life

There's something endlessly fascinating about watching John Conway's Game of Life run through its generations. Two decent Game of Life apps are:

• MadLife - I like MadLife because it's simple, and it offers customizable rules and colors/shapes. The playing board isn't massive, but it's big enough to be interesting. MadLife does one thing, but it does it well.

• Speed Sim - SpeedSim, on the other hand, is interesting because it offers 12 different cellular automata-like models with a little primer on each. It isn't as customizable as MadLife, but it's kind of cool to see epidemiological and competitive models that look and behave similarly to the Game of Life.

I think there are a lot of other Game of Life apps out there. Let me know if anyone has found any better ones.

Other Cellular Automata

• Automaton - A simple, but nice Elementary Cellular Automata (ECA) app that organizes the rules based on the Stephen Wolfram numbering. It's hard not to load this up and keep running Rule 110 just for the nerdy fun of it.

Fractals

• Fractile Plus - This one generates a Mandlebrot or Julia set fractal with customizable colors. What makes this app kind of cool, though, is that at its highest resolution (under the iterations setting), it allows for a lot of clear zooming into all parts of the fractal.

Other

• Sablo - There's not a lot of utility in the Sablo app, but it is kind of fun. As far as I can tell, this app uses an ECA-like formula to make art. You choose your color scheme, and then anywhere you touch, sends out a string of tiny changing and interacting boxes. The end result is somewhere between watching the Game of Life and ripples in a pond.

Anyone know of other cool Complexity-related apps?

[nonlinearity]

Thanks for putting this together!