EXPLORING DISCRETE DYNAMICS. 2nd Editiion. The DDLab Manual

EXPLORING DISCRETE DYNAMICS (second edition) is a comprehensive guide
to studying cellular automata and discrete dynamical networks with the
classic software Discrete Dynamics Laboratory (DDLab), widely used in
research and education. These collective networks are at the core of
complexity and emergent self-organisation. With interactive graphics,
DDLab is able to explore a huge diversity of behaviour, mostly terra
incognita -- space-time patterns, and basins of attraction --
mathematical objects representing the convergent flow in
state-space. Applications range within physics, mathematics, biology,
cognition, society, economics and computation, and more specifically
in neural and genetic networks, artificial life, and theories of
memory. This second edition covers many new features.

Advance Praise by Stuart Kauffman
The great John von Neumann invented cellular automata. These discrete
state finite automata have become a mainstay in the study of complex
systems, exhibiting order, criticality, and chaos. Andy Wuensche's
"Exploring Discrete Dynamics" 2016, is by far the most advanced tool
for simulating such systems and has become widely important in the
field of complexity.

FIRST EDITION REVIEWS
Andrew Wuensche has, in an important sense, done more than anyone
to enable the study of discrete dynamical systems such as cellular
automata and random Boolean nets. Wuensche derived the mathematical
means to compute the "predecessor" states that flow to a successor
state. Thereby he opened the door to study the entire state space flow
of discrete dynamical systems. DDLab is a marvellous and useful tool
for all of us fascinated by discrete dynamical systems and what they
may tell us of mathematics and the world.
STUART KAUFFMAN, author of "The Origins of Order"
Tampere University of Technology, Finland.

There is a whole universe of complexity that is captured by discrete
dynamical systems, which have been widely used as a powerful framework
to understand reality from different perspectives. Exploring Discrete
Dynamics is a great example of how to dive in this neverending universe.
A careful, compelling and detailed presentation of examples and methods
will help both beginners and scholars to get into this fascinating field."
RICARD SOLE, Author of "Signs of Life"
Complex Systems Lab, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.