>See also "When Zombies Attack!: Mathematical Modelling of an Outbreak of >Zombie Infection" > >http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/zombies/
Sorry, neglected to notice a direct link to the paper itself: http://www.mathstat.uottawa.ca/~rsmith/Zombies.pdf Which includes code (unsure which programming language it is) for the model too. >On 1/11/2009, "info" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>A Brief History Of Zombies. >> >>James Turner, >> >>The sci-fi undead are personifications of technology gone horribly wrong. >> >>The atomic bombs that dropped on Japan in 1945 inspired movie director >>Ishiro Honda to give the world the big, bad, grey monster, born of >>irresponsible nuclear weapons tests that we know to this day as >>Godzilla. Godzilla was, quite literally, the personification of >>humanity's science and technology gone bad. The message was simple: With >>atomic weapons, we had unleashed a monster that was beyond our ability >>to control. >> >>In the West, Godzilla's cautionary tale (and tail) never really took >>hold. To Americans, Godzilla was just a guy in a rubber suit stepping on >>model houses. But that's not to say that the West hasn't had its own >>cinematic symbol of science run amuck. Instead of giant irradiated >>monsters, our preferred poison has been flesh-eating zombies. >>Article Controls >> >>Until George Romero's landmark 1968 film, Night of the Living Dead, >>zombies in movies usually were created from voodoo or magic (or aliens, >>as featured in Ed Wood's groundbreakingly awful Plan 9 From Outer >>Space.) Romero gave us brain-munching corpses produced from a space >>probe blowing up in the atmosphere. Once again, the monsters were >>created by our out-of-control technology. >> >>more... >>http://tinyurl.com/yd8vvtj >>_______________________________________________ >>NetBehaviour mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >_______________________________________________ >NetBehaviour mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
