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Codd's Cellular Automaton
- da-bacon 1y agoWhen I was a high school student, I read “Artificial Life” by Stephen Levy and got really into alife. The book had snapshots of a daughter of Codd’s CA, Langston’s loops, on its book sleeve. I was able to back up some of the rules and then deduce what the others were to repro this CA. I still chase that feeling I got from doing this.
- mcphage 1y agoHow does this differ from Langton’s Loops? The two wiki articles don’t seem to reference each other.
- zitterbewegung 1y agoLangton reduced the amount of rules for their construction by removing the ability for Universal Computation but still having self reproduction.
- mcphage 1y agoGotcha, thank you :-)