>I asked my classmates whether they had heard of the sci-fi writer Rudy Rucker’s book Rudy Rucker was/is also one of the most prominent cellular automata resea

>I asked my classmates whether they had heard of the sci-fi writer Rudy Rucker’s book Rudy Rucker was/is also one of the most prominent cellular automata researchers of recent history. I can highly recommend "Cellab" [1], which I first encountered as CA Lab. You may need to install a virtual machine to get it running properly [2]. [1]: http://www.rudyrucker.com/oldhomepage/cellab.htm http://www.rudyrucker.com/oldhomepage/cellab.htm [2]: [In the spring of 2010, the Cellab software became semi-obsolete---in that it won't run under Windows 7. The "good" news is that Windows 7 can in fact run a virtual machine in Windows XP mode, if you download and install some free Microsoft virtual XP software. I tried this just now, and it works pretty well. You get a little window or a full screen which is an XP desktop. And CELLAB runs fine in the XP window—to make it easy to find your files, you drag the CELLAB folder from your normal C: drive (if that’s where it lives) onto the desktop of the XP Virtual machine window.]