English

On excitable beta-skeletons

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases 2010-11-23 v1 Pattern Formation and Solitons

Abstract

A beta-skeleton is a planar proximity undirected graph of an Euclidean point set where nodes are connected by an edge if their lune-based neighborhood contains no other points of the given set. Parameter β\beta determines size and shape of the nodes' neighborhoods. In an excitable beta-skeleton every node takes three states --- resting, excited and refractory, and updates its state in discrete time depending on states of its neighbors. We design families of beta-skeletons with absolute and relative thresholds of excitability and demonstrate that several distinct classes of space-time excitation dynamics can be selected using beta. The classes include spiral and target waves of excitation, branching domains of excitation and oscillating localizations.

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@article{arxiv.1007.0054,
  title  = {On excitable beta-skeletons},
  author = {Andrew Adamatzky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1007.0054},
  year   = {2010}
}
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