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Cellular Automata Laboratory
- md224 8y agoI'm trying to understand the NLUKY rules... I think I've almost got it, but one thing is throwing me off: if Conway's Game of Life is NLUKY 0,3,3,2,3, how does a cell's state get back to 0 from 1? Rule 3 means that when a cell "dies" it gets set to 2, but if N = 0 then it looks like Rule 5 will never kick in and the cell will be stuck at 2 permanently. I'm guessing this is a bug in the specification of Rule #3 (newC should be 0 if the cell "dies" and N = 0), but I just wanted to make sure I wasn't misunderstanding something.
- midnightmoth 8y agoFourmilab is chock-full of interesting things. Be sure to check out the gravity detector, too. And the SlideScreen screen saver for Windows is still the best slide-show screen saver on that platform, after 15 years or more. Not to mention how interesting John Waters, the creator of the site and Autodesk founder is.
- abecedarius 8y ago(John Walker)
- eigengrau 8y agoFolks interested in playing with cellular automata might also be interested in the desktop application Golly (http://golly.sourceforge.net/ http://golly.sourceforge.net/).
- starshadowx2 8y agoSome of the scenes in the demo remind me a lot of an old "game" I played with as a kid, Burning Sand. It's a Falling Sand game. - http://burningsand.de/ http://burningsand.de/ - https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Falling-sand_game https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Falling-sand_game