
DIY Fractals: Exploring the Mandelbrot Set on a Personal Computer
A 1985 column in Scientific American showed how simple computer programs could be used to view fractal pioneer Benoit Mandelbrot's eponymous set

DIY Fractals: Exploring the Mandelbrot Set on a Personal Computer
A 1985 column in Scientific American showed how simple computer programs could be used to view fractal pioneer Benoit Mandelbrot's eponymous set

Photovores
Intelligent robots are constructed from castoffs

Turing Test
A computerized therapist for human passes (almost)

Leaping into Lyapunov Space

Insectoids Invade a Field of Robots

Mathematical Recreations May 1991
The theory of rigidity, or how to brace yourself against unlikely accidents

Mathematical Recreations, March 1991
A menu of mathematical morsels, topological tidbits and puzzling plums

Mathematical Recreations, January 1991
Tools for computer graphics make an invisible world seem less alien

Mathematical Recreations, November 1990
A compendium of math abuse from around the world

Mathematical Recreations, September 1990
How to resurrect a cat from its grin

Mathematical Recreations, July 1990
An odd journey along even roads leads to home in Golygon City

Mathematical Recreations, May 1990
How to transform flights of fancy into fractal flora or fauna

Mathematical Recreations, March 1990
Lunar infants, lotteries and meteorites expose the dangers of math abuse

Computer Recreations, January 1990
The cellular automata programs that create wireworld, rugworld and other diversions

Computer Recreations, December 1989
A Pandora's box of minds, machines and metaphysics

Computer Recreations, November 1989
A microgolf game gives professionals and amateurs an equal chance for a hole in one

Computer Recreations, October 1989
A Tinkertoy computer that plays tic-tac-toe

Computer Recreations, September 1989
Two-dimensional Turing machines and tur-mites make tracks on a plane

Computer Recreations, August 1989
A cellular universe of debris, droplets, defects and demons

Computer Recreations, July 1989
Catch of the day: biomorphs on Truchet tiles, served with popcorn and snails

Computer Recreations, June 1989
A potpourri of programmed prose and prosody

Computer Recreations, May 1989
Simulated Evolution: wherein bugs learn to hunt bacteria

Computer Recreations, April 1989
A matter fabricator provides matter for thought

Computer Recreations, March 1989
Of worms, viruses and Core War