Huffington Post published an article mentioning Stephen Wolfram's New Kind of Science (NKS) book and Cellular Automata as inspiration for an art project, - see the quote below or follow to the original: ...Math Is Art Is Math Is Art.... How timely and coincidentally with recently opened registration for the Wolfram Science Summer School 2016. The school has produced many computational art projects based on NKS, spanning visual, musical, architectural and general design arts. The one I remember well due to personal communications with artists is visualization and sonification of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" based on characters' story-lines.

The Concinnitas exhibition is bracketed by a show of graphite drawings by Bill Richards and a show of wax encaustics by Richard Purdy. The former is teeming with the natural, wonderful organic jumbles of leaves and grasses that push out to the edges of their rectangular boundaries, rendered in ghostly but precise shades of grey. The latter series is directly inspired by the cellular automata work of mathematician/physicist/computer scientist Steven Wolfram presented in his monolithic "A New Kind of Science". Cellular automata are simple sets of rules sometime able to produce surprisingly complex patterns. Wolfram believed that cellular automata would provide a new language of science, one that would augment or possibly even replace mathematics as a means of describing natural phenomena. That said, they are best known as foundational algorithms for investigating "artificial life", wherein the basic properties of living things are abstracted create an in silico laboratory for understanding evolution.

More NKS related works by Richard Purdy can be found at richardpurdy.net, for instance: