This model demonstrates how changing the sequencing of the game of life update rule leads to different outcomes.
Click on the image to download and save the model NetLogo file. You will need to install NetLogo including the gradient extension to run this file.
You can be interested by reading this article:
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-84996-217-9_14
pre-print available here:
http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00433313
Thanks for this link, Nazim. It’s good to know that there is still work going on on asynchrony in CA models. In chapter 6 of the book, we cite your earlier papers:
Fatès NA and Morvan M 2004 Perturbing the topology of the game of life increases its robustness to asynchrony In Cellular Automata (ed. Sloot P, Chopard B and Hoekstra A) vol. 3305 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science Springer Berlin / Heidelberg pp. 111–120.
Fatès NA and Morvan M 2005 An experimental study of robustness to asynchronism for elementary cellular automata. Complex Systems 16, 1–27.