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Continuous cellular automataDemonstration of continuous cellular automata as described in S. Wolfram book A new kind of science (demo and source). Continuous cellular automata are not that much more complex than simple cellular automata in their behaviour. This applet will show it. view source (download jar).
The idea of a continuous cellular automata as described by S. Wolfram is to look at the average gray level of a cell and its immediate neighbors, and then to get the gray level for that cell at the next step by applying a fixed mapping to the result. Each cell can have any level of gray between white (0) and black (1). Interesting automata are those where the fixed mapping is FractionalPart[1.5x+0] or FractionalPart[1x+a] where a varies between 0 and 1. |
