TL;DR
This paper demonstrates that supersaturated sodium acetate solutions, called 'hot ice', can be used as a massively-parallel unconventional computer to solve problems like Voronoi diagrams, shortest paths, and logical operations.
Contribution
It introduces the concept of hot ice as a physical substrate for computation, showcasing experimental prototypes for various computational tasks.
Findings
Hot ice can compute Voronoi diagrams.
Hot ice can find shortest collision-free paths.
Hot ice can implement logical gates like AND and OR.
Abstract
We experimentally demonstrate that supersaturated solution of sodium acetate, commonly called 'hot ice', is a massively-parallel unconventional computer. In the hot ice computer data are represented by a spatial configuration of crystallization induction sites and physical obstacles immersed in the experimental container. Computation is implemented by propagation and interaction of growing crystals initiated at the data-sites. We discuss experimental prototypes of hot ice processors which compute planar Voronoi diagram, shortest collision-free paths and implement AND and OR logical gates.
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