Diagonal and orthogonal neighbours in grid-based simulations: Buffon's stick after 200 years

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 192, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 637-644

  Birch, Colin P D ^a,b  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cellular automata; Diagonal versus orthogonal; Moore; Nearest neighbourhood; Rectangular grid; Von Neumann

Indexed keywords

CELLS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ECOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; DIAGONAL VERSUS ORTHOGONAL; MOORE; NEAREST NEIGHBORHOOD; RECTANGULAR GRID; VON NEUMANN;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ECOLOGICAL MODELING;

EID: 31944438411     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2005.07.017     Document Type: Article

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