Topic: actor machines

Summary

Actor machines consist of independent units modifying a neighborhood, and moving to new locations. Actors communicate by sharing a neighborhood. They tend to be pictorial machines more interesting for their behavior than for practical work. For instance the LIFE program consists of nodes created and destroyed by neighboring nodes.

Advantages-- Actor machines provide models for a real world with active entities. (cbb 5/80)

Subtopic: daemons

QuoteRef: pfisGF6_1976 ;;1 picture made up of picture modules containing event driven procedures (daemons)

Subtopic: autonomous scanners

QuoteRef: sammJE_1969 ;;644 scanners which sit on surface and move about with ability to test and change surface and relative positioning

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