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[MakerLab Blog] The proposition to simulate ecosystems seems to best be modeled using a cellular automata approach.  But since these terrains can be so large - and so self-similar - some kind of sparse matrix or spatial compression technique seems to be required.  There has to be some kind of trade-off between performance ( being able to index each cell in linear time and in as few clock cycles as possible ) and scaleability ( being able to manage large datasets ).

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