Langton's Ant Family Cellular Automata app for iPhone and iPad

4.6 ( 9296 ratings )

Music Education
Developer: Jeff Holtzkener

Free

Current version: 1.1, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 06 Sep 2016
App size: 35.21 Mb

A *massive* playground for exploring variations on virtual ant cellular automata. Not only watch and save your creation, but also *listen* to musical sonifications of the ants behaviour.
- use square and hexagonal grids (also allows ants which travel to all 8 directions in its Moore neighbourhood)

- precisely place as many ants on grid as you like

- map ant direction to MIDI voices or drum samples to hear the interaction of chaos, reflection, symmetry, periodicity as music.