Rock, Paper, Scissors: Life!
Aside from being a timeless method of settling debates, the rock-paper-scissors game contains dynamics seen in the natural world, in particular between competing organisms. Here rock-paper-scissors algorithms were used in models of ecological evolution, generating after thousands of generations beautiful geometries of species distribution. In the figures above, each species is represented by a color, and each block represents a trial evolutionary run of the algorithms.
Citation: "Junctions and spiral patterns in Rock-Paper-Scissors type models." By P. P. Avelino, D. Bazeia, L. Losano, J. Menezes, B. F. Oliveira. arXiv, 28 May 2012.
Image: Avelino et al./arXiv (Larger image)
