Introduction

Welcome to AlgorithmLab

There is a particular kind of joy in small programs.

Not applications.
Not systems.
Not products.

Just rules.

A few lines of code that describe how something evolves step by step.

This blog is a place for that kind of code — small coding experiments about cellular automata, fractals, and complex systems. Programs short enough to read in one sitting, but rich enough to keep you watching.

Setup: Running the Examples

All examples on this site are small experiments in:

algorithms
cellular automata
fractals
emergent systems

To follow along, you only need a minimal Python setup — Python itself plus two libraries: NumPy for array math and Matplotlib for drawing the results.

Technical blog

Algorithms, emergence, and visual experiments.

Small coding experiments about cellular automata, fractals, and complex systems.

Small rules, surprising behavior.