I was reading 'Artifical Life' by Levey recently and after reading about reversible cellular automata I thought that might be an interesting way of doing encryp

I was reading 'Artifical Life' by Levey recently and after reading about reversible cellular automata I thought that might be an interesting way of doing encryption/compression of images. Take the source image as the result of the automation and move backwards until a simpler image results, in the case of compression.