SPATIO-TEMPORAL MODELING OF SNOW FLAKE CRYSTALS USING PACKARDªS CELLULAR AUTOMATA

Shanthi.M, Dr.E.G.Rajan

Abstract: Cellular automata (CA) modelling is one of the recent advances in spatial–temporal modeling techniques in the field of growth dynamics. Spatio-temporal modeling of growth patterns has gained more importance in the recent years especially in the field of crystal growth, urban growth, biological growth etc. It has become an interest for researchers to study the model on spatial and temporal dynamic behavior. This paper aimed at modeling crystal growth using cellular Automata, which have dynamic capabilities to handle spatio-temporal phenomenon for better and efficient growth process. Cellular Automata models are used to simulate the process of crystal growth and to generate various patterns that the crystals create in nature. CA’s do quite easily reproduce the basic feature of the overall behavior that occurs in real world.CA models have been successfully used to simulate different growth behavior of crystals, since cellular Automata and crystals have similar structure.

Keywords: Crystal Growth, Snowflake Crystal, Cellular Automata, and Types of crystal

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2012.0104006