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Question: what proportion of cellular automata generate "interesting" patterns in the way Conway's Game of Life does? For instance, in the GOL, you can create g
by dash2 6y ago
Question: what proportion of cellular automata generate "interesting" patterns in the way Conway's Game of Life does? For instance, in the GOL, you can create gliders, which keep their pattern over time, and even build logic gates. Perhaps you could even have "life forms" in some sense?
Presumably many automata aren't like this and just generate uninteresting patterns, or always collapse into some determinate after enough time.
What do we know about this?
- mysterydip 6y agoThe wikipedia page actually has a lot of depth on this topic, with other rulesets as well (see "specific rules" at the bottom): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_automaton https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_automaton
- Aperocky 6y agoIt doesn't even necessarily need to be dynamic, for instance, use this to generate a maze: { "0": [ "SpontaneousChange 1 0.1" ], "1": [ "CountAdjacent gt 1 5 2" ], "2": [], "colorMap": { "0": "tintblack", "1": "cyan", "2": "gray" } }
- UncleOxidant 6y agoIs there a path through the maze it generates? If so, are there multiple paths?
- Aperocky 6y agomaybe it's provable mathematically, but I don't think it follow any strict bounds.
- UncleOxidant 6y agoI've got a CA that can run a maze. Can I generate a maze using your maze-generating code and then use that as the starting point for my maze-runner? It doesn't seem to be possible - when I enter my maze running code and start the whole thing resets.
- Aperocky 6y agoyeah sadly once it goes it doesn't accept changes to the paradigm (for now). I think it's a good feature to add though (hot start!), thanks for the suggestion. EDIT: I just changed it to support hot loading (might have to reload). Need to pause first though, can hot load through either continue or step buttons.
- OscarCunningham 6y agohttps://discord.com/channels/357922255553953794/370570978188591105/689962958263943224 https://discord.com/channels/357922255553953794/370570978188...