CELLULAR ARRAY
Charles François (2004). CELLULAR ARRAY, International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(1): 387.
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 387 ▶ |
| Object type | Methodology or model |
- “A subdivision of a limited space into units which completely fill the space” (1976, p.53).
K. CULIK II & A. LINDENMAYER state: “Tesselations and maps are examples of two-dimensional cellular arrays” (Ibid.). This is somewhat unexpected, since what the authors seem really to have in mind, are dynamic cellular arrays. (see following heading).
These authors, being mainly interested in biochemical and cytological aspects, concern themselves “… primarily with neighborhood aspects of such arrays, i.e. topological aspects, and not with their detailed metric descriptions”. They thus choosed graph representation.
What they proposed is “… a powerful and general mechanism for defining connection rules, dependent on node and edge labels, edge directions, and on the structure of the neighborhoods” (p.54).