Breaking of Materials Simulation

https://editor.p5js.org/simontiger/sketches/n6-WZhMC3

Simon building a simple cellular automaton (rule 22) model for fracture. Simon read about this model a couple nights before in Stephen Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science" and recreated it from memory. Stephen Wolfram: "Even though no randomness is inserted from outside, the paths of the cracks that emerge from this model appear to a large extent random.There is some evidence from physical experiments that dislocations around cracks can form patterns that look similar to the grey and white backgrounds above" (p.375).