The Flask

Table of Contents

Introduction

Basics

Putting It All Together

Path Length Problem

Traveling Salesman Problem

Spatial Features

Future Direction

Table of Contents
Introduction
Basics
Putting It All Together
Path Length Problem
Traveling Salesman Problem
Spatial Features
Future Direction

The Flask© is a portable artificial chemistry simulator written in Java by Benjy Cline. It is a computational system loosely based on the ideas of real chemistry. Computational problems are solved by defining them in terms of atoms and binding rules, running the simulator to collide atoms and form molecules, and selecting a resultant molecule that represents a solution to the computational problem.

Figure 1 - FlaskRunner GUI (click to enlarge)

Features

Stochastic molecular collision simulator
GUI for declarative problem definition (see Figure 1.)
Result visualization
Virtual and spatial location for atoms
Extendable with Java programming