5/ Percolation: I tend to think of some dynamical systems (like spin-glasses) as naturally moving toward a static end-state where every cell is frozen (e.g up or down, black or white). (This is generally a good property for go games to have too.) But some systems just keep going. As you bring water to a boil, first you get tiny bubbles too widely spread to intact; later they start to merge; there is an edge of chaos/complexity region; and then you wind up with a chaotic boiling mess.If you removed any go rules against suicide or eye filling and made passing illegal (any empty space is legal-although it might be suicide), then a playout game would boil away forever. Just what my go engine needs ;) By tuning the playout rules, you might get different scaling effects.
I wonder if a large board would ever boil away to a single stone. _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
