Compare these Butshchli cells: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tmTDvL1AUs The Butschli system is very plastic and as its chemical and physical properties change then its performance shows variation in space and time - in this particular instance the protocell starts as a free-swimming droplet and undergoes a couple of morphological transitions before it changes locomotory style and 'crawls' across the bottom of the petri dish. Brent Meeker On 10/12/2012 12:38 PM, Adam P. Goucher wrote:

Tim Hutton, Robert Munafo and some other people have been experimenting with continuous cellular automata and partial differential equations in two and three dimensions.

http://cp4space.wordpress.com/2012/10/12/spinning-around/

Sincerely,

Adam P. Goucher

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