Cellular Automata

Works, opinions and experiences

>inb4 useless
>inb4 not science
>inb4 nice try Wolfram

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nice try wolfram, they're completely useless and don't belong on the science board, fuck off

Conway's Game of Life should be the most popular CA but there's a lot more to it.

It is a good way to understand the numerous possibilities of Turing complete CAs.

I think they're cool, I thnk that kids should be exposed to them at a young age considered how easily they are defined and convey very well the message thay simple rules can lead to very interesting. I also think Wolfram went a bit too far and forcifully tried to build a whole philosophical system around there without really much scientific to say...

>Universal
>Computability

So sayeth Wolfram the lord

2D CA isn't as cool as 1D CA.

Yet neither of them compare to 0D CA.

he did not need to SAY something "much scientific" because he DID something "much scientific" and it's called Wolfram Language and it is a work of science, it could even be considered a work of art.

have you tried ĐiệnWorlds? pretty neat game based on Brian Silverman's Wireworld

thetagames.itch.io/dienworlds
guide: drive.google.com/file/d/0BwAnRZkWKV-URE4wb0JLVG1OYm8/view

I've coded Conway's game of Life a few times. Cellular automata is pretty cool but I just wish I knew some better applications for it.