database Frederik Ravn Klausen author Asbjørn Bækgaard Lauritsen author e1a2682f-dc8d-11ea-abe3-81da9ac728f10000-0003-4476-2288 GradSch department RoSe department We introduce a stochastic cellular automaton as a model for culture and border formation. The model can be conceptualized as a game where the expansion rate of cultures is quantified in terms of their area and perimeter in such a way that approximately round cultures get a competitive advantage. We first analyse the model with periodic boundary conditions, where we study how the model can end up in a fixed state, i.e. freezes. Then we implement the model on the European geography with mountains and rivers. We see how the model reproduces some qualitative features of European culture formation, namely that rivers and mountains are more frequently borders between cultures, mountainous regions tend to have higher cultural diversity and the central European plain has less clear cultural borders. https://research-explorer.ista.ac.at/download/12869/12870/README.md application/octet-streamno https://research-explorer.ista.ac.at/download/12869/12871/simulations_era=10_flux_varied_europe.zip application/x-zip-compressedno https://research-explorer.ista.ac.at/download/12869/12872/simulations_era=10_flux_varied_torus.zip application/x-zip-compressedno https://research-explorer.ista.ac.at/download/12869/12873/simulations_era=10_R_varied_torus.zip application/x-zip-compressedno https://research-explorer.ista.ac.at/download/12869/12874/simulations_era=100.zip application/x-zip-compressedno https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Institute of Science and Technology Austria2023 10.15479/AT:ISTA:12869 https://research-explorer.ista.ac.at/record/14505 https://research-explorer.ista.ac.at/record/12890 Klausen FR, Lauritsen AB. Research data for: A stochastic cellular automaton model of culture formation. 2023. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:12869">10.15479/AT:ISTA:12869</a> Klausen, Frederik Ravn, and Asbjørn Bækgaard Lauritsen. <i>Research Data for: A Stochastic Cellular Automaton Model of Culture Formation</i>. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:12869">10.15479/AT:ISTA:12869</a>. F. R. Klausen and A. B. Lauritsen, “Research data for: A stochastic cellular automaton model of culture formation.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. Klausen, Frederik Ravn, and Asbjørn Bækgaard Lauritsen. “Research Data for: A Stochastic Cellular Automaton Model of Culture Formation.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. <a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:12869">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:12869</a>. Klausen FR, Lauritsen AB. 2023. Research data for: A stochastic cellular automaton model of culture formation, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, <a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:12869">10.15479/AT:ISTA:12869</a>. Klausen, F. R., &#38; Lauritsen, A. B. (2023). Research data for: A stochastic cellular automaton model of culture formation. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. <a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:12869">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:12869</a> F.R. Klausen, A.B. Lauritsen, (2023). 128692023-04-26T12:34:49Z2025-09-09T12:26:01Z