Hot ice computer |
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| Authors: | Andrew Adamatzky |
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| Institution: | Department of Computer Science, University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom |
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| Abstract: | We experimentally demonstrate that supersaturated solution of sodium acetate, commonly called ‘hot ice’, is a massively-parallel unconventional computer. In the hot ice computer data are represented by a spatial configuration of crystallization induction sites and physical obstacles immersed in the experimental container. Computation is implemented by propagation and interaction of growing crystals initiated at the data-sites. We discuss experimental prototypes of hot ice processors which compute planar Voronoi diagram, shortest collision-free paths and implement and and or logical gates. |
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| Keywords: | Crystallization Voronoi diagram Shortest path Unconventional computing Logical gates Physics of computation |
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