Generalized Ulam Sets in the Plane

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This Demonstration plots a list of points of the generalized Ulam set in the plane after
steps of iteration. The recursive rule to generate
is to append vectors to the previous set of minimal Euclidean norms that can be uniquely written as the sum of two distinct vectors from
. The specified list of linearly independent initial vectors completely determines the points.
Contributed by: Maxie D. Schmidt (August 2017)
Suggested by: Jayadev Athreya and his work with the WXML at the University of Washington
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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[1] N. Kravitz and S. Steinerberger, "Ulam Sequences and Ulam Sets." arxiv.org/abs/1705.01883.
[2] M. D. Schmidt, "Pair Correlation and Gap Distributions for Substitution Tilings and Generalized Ulam Sets in the Plane." arxiv.org/abs/1707.05509.
[3] M. D. Schmidt. "Ulam-sets." (Jul 31, 2017) github.com/maxieds/Ulam-sets.
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