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Nils Barricelli "blueprint"

Nils Barricelli "blueprint"

URI: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12111/3509
Identifier: Figure2a
Date: 1950s
Type: Image
Repository: Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA
Collection: Electronic Computer Project Records
Finding Aid: https://albert.ias.edu/handle/20.500.12111/638
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In his book Turing's Cathedral (Pantheon, 2012), George Dyson describes this process for creating this image: "Five out of every one hundred generations of numerical symbioorganisms were sampled and the data transferred to punched cards, assembled into an array, and contact-printed onto blueprint paper, leaving the imprint visible here."

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