This model demonstrates how the game of life can be implemented on an ‘inifitely extensible’ lattice by only recording the locations of live cells.
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This model demonstrates how changing the sequencing of the game of life update rule leads to different outcomes.
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This model allows you to explore the behaviour of a wide variety of possible totalistic automata, i.e., cellular automata whose rules are based only on the total number of cells in each neighbourhood in each of the two allowed states.
An example is the majority rule automaton which you can see running in the video. Here the rule is that each cell adopts the state that is in the majority in its neighbourhood at the next time step.
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A simple implementation of John Conway’s game of life cellular automaton.
See also the totalistic automata model, which allows a wide range of the cellular automata models of which life is just an example to be explored. Also of interest may be the effect on the life CA of changing how we represent time.
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