Cellular automata are a set of rules followed to form different patterns. (i.e. The Chaos Game) There is no one fixed set of rules to form all patterns, there can be infinitely many. The evolution of ...

Let's start with a simple game, due to John Conway, called the Game of Life. Start with a grid of squares and color each square either black or white (dead or alive). Each square has eight neighbors, ...

A state machine that consists of an array of cells, each of which can be in one of a finite number of possible states. The cells are updated synchronously in discrete time steps, according to a local, ...

Might treating binary numbers as cellular automata be helpful for the design and implementation of a digital binary counter? As most readers already know, counting in binary is similar to counting in ...

Vol. 16, No. 1, (Special Issue) Time and Space: Scale Dependence of Vegetation Dynamics—Papers Presented at the 34th IAVS Symposium on Mechanisms in Vegetation Dynamics (1992), pp. 49-54 (6 pages) In ...

Wolfram Research’s A New Kind of Science Explorer software kit provides an easy, animated introduction to the book A New Kind of Science, by company founder Stephen Wolfram. He claims that cellular ...