Self-Organizing Construction Method of Offshore Structures by Cellular Automata Model

Figure 5

Construction model of underwater space. A two-dimensional square cell grid is considered in the vertical direction. Each cell has two attributes: one is the state (ocean bed (−1), marine water (0), and structural module (1)) and the other is the potential value that expresses the hierarchy from the bottom of the seabed. Under these conditions, the structural modules are piled up according to the algorithm of transition rule.