It means that a set of rules (generally small) governs how "cells" live or die in their universe. Conway's game of life is a cellular automaton in 2d board, wit

It means that a set of rules (generally small) governs how "cells" live or die in their universe. Conway's game of life is a cellular automaton in 2d board, with cells being either alive or dead. Woflram's automaton has a single dimension with the rules being encoded over 8 bits. Here's some literature for Wolfram's automaton: * https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/p24--how-do-simple-programs-behave/ https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/p24--how-do-simple-progra... * http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2017/06/oh-my-gosh-its-covered-in-rule-30s/ http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2017/06/oh-my-gosh-its-covere... And my F# implementation: https://github.com/msarilar/CellularAutomaton/blob/master/interpreter.fsx https://github.com/msarilar/CellularAutomaton/blob/master/in...