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Although they could call this an automata, I think it's incorrect to call it a CA as it's not cell-neighbourhood based: "A cellular automaton consists of a reg
by danwills 5y ago
Although they could call this an automata, I think it's incorrect to call it a CA as it's not cell-neighbourhood based:
"A cellular automaton consists of a regular grid of cells, each in one of a finite number of states, such as on and off "
From:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_automaton?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_automaton?wprov=sfla1
- StandardFuture 5y agoIt's not grid based. But that seems like a rather pedantic differentiation to make. It does quite literally utilize the concept of "cells". [0] I find it interesting that the project seems to have hard-coded emergence with the concept of "tokens". So, I am much less intrigued by the simulation examples when most of what we are seeing is just a procedurally-generated video game with pre-defined game rules. Much of it is not truly emergent. Again, it's a "oh, that's cool" kind of factor, but a far cry from contributing to anything in the way of "artificial life" research. [0] https://alien-project.org/documentation/Basicnotion.html https://alien-project.org/documentation/Basicnotion.html