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Toffoli and Margolus wrote a fine book about things you could do with their machine. It was more fun to read than Wolfram's later "New Kind of Science".
by abecedarius 3y ago
Toffoli and Margolus wrote a fine book about things you could do with their machine. It was more fun to read than Wolfram's later "New Kind of Science".
- DonHopkins 3y ago"Cellular Automata Machines: A New Environment for Modeling" is one of my favorite books of all time! It shows lots of peculiarly indented Forth code. https://donhopkins.com/home/cam-book.pdf https://donhopkins.com/home/cam-book.pdf CAM6 Simulator Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyLMHxRNuck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyLMHxRNuck Forth source code for CAM-6 hardware: https://donhopkins.com/home/code/tomt-cam-forth-scr.txt https://donhopkins.com/home/code/tomt-cam-forth-scr.txt https://donhopkins.com/home/code/tomt-users-forth-scr.txt https://donhopkins.com/home/code/tomt-users-forth-scr.txt
- abecedarius 3y agoThanks for hosting those. This isn't a CAM simulator, but I once wrote a little hack of a CA playground inspired by it. Table-driven in a similar way, user-scriptable with JS, includes neighborhoods like the Margolus neighborhood. https://github.com/darius/js-playground/blob/master/ca.js https://github.com/darius/js-playground/blob/master/ca.js and the associated ca.html.