The Computational Beauty of Nature
Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos,
Complex Systems, and Adaptation


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Glossary - V


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V

Value Function     A built-in function in Lisp or Stutter that evaluates all of its arguments prior to being executed, e.g., car, cdr, and cons.

Vant     A virtual ant; a type of cellular automaton that vaguely emulates the activity of one or more ants.

Variation     Genetic differences among individuals in a population.

Vector     A one-dimensional array of numbers that can be used to represent a point in a multidimensional space.


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