In a cellular automaton, an oscillator is a pattern that returns to its original state, in the same orientation and position, after a finite number of...
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A reversible cellular automaton is a cellular automaton in which every configuration has a unique predecessor. That is, it is a regular grid of cells,...
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method used in technical analysis of financial markets Oscillator (cellular automaton) Oscillator (EP), an EP by Information Society Oscillation (differential...
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A cellular automaton (pl. cellular automata, abbrev. CA) is a discrete model of computation studied in automata theory. Cellular automata are also called...
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Seeds is a cellular automaton in the same family as the Game of Life, initially investigated by Brian Silverman and named by Mirek Wójtowicz. It consists...
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A block cellular automaton or partitioning cellular automaton is a special kind of cellular automaton in which the lattice of cells is divided into non-overlapping...
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In a cellular automaton, a gun is a pattern with a main part that repeats periodically, like an oscillator, and that also periodically emits spaceships...
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Day and Night is a cellular automaton rule in the same family as Game of Life. It is defined by rule notation B3678/S34678, meaning that a dead cell becomes...
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Conway's Game of Life (category Cellular automaton rules)
of Life, also known as Conway's Game of Life or simply Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. It...
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In a cellular automaton, a finite pattern is called a spaceship if it reappears after a certain number of generations in the same orientation but in a...
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Lenia (redirect from Lenia (cellular automaton))
that any cellular automaton could be represented as a convolutional neural network, and trained neural networks to reproduce existing cellular automata...
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In cellular automata, a methuselah is a small "seed" pattern of initial live cells that take a large number of generations in order to stabilize. More...
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cellular automaton similar to Conway's Game of Life. It was devised in 1994 by Nathan Thompson. It is a two-dimensional, two-state cellular automaton...
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Brian's Brain (category Cellular automaton rules)
Brian's Brain is a cellular automaton devised by Brian Silverman, which is very similar to his Seeds rule. Brian's Brain consists of an infinite two-dimensional...
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A cellular automaton (CA) is Life-like (in the sense of being similar to Conway's Game of Life) if it meets the following criteria: The array of cells...
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In a cellular automaton, a Garden of Eden is a configuration that has no predecessor. It can be the initial configuration of the automaton but cannot...
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In cellular automata such as Conway's Game of Life, a breeder is a pattern that exhibits quadratic growth, by generating multiple copies of a secondary...
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Rule 90 (category Cellular automaton rules)
In the mathematical study of cellular automata, Rule 90 is an elementary cellular automaton based on the exclusive or function. It consists of a one-dimensional...
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Puffer train (redirect from Puffer (cellular automaton))
In a cellular automaton, a puffer train, or simply puffer, is a finite pattern that moves itself across the "universe", leaving debris behind. Thus a pattern...
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Glider (Conway's Game of Life) (redirect from Glider (cellular automaton))
the pentadecathlon oscillator. Some patterns require a very large number (sometimes hundreds) of glider collisions; some oscillators, exotic spaceships...
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Critters is a reversible block cellular automaton with similar dynamics to Conway's Game of Life, first described by Tommaso Toffoli and Norman Margolus...
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Langton's ant (category Cellular automaton rules)
square, move forward one unit Langton's ant can also be described as a cellular automaton, where the grid is colored black or white and the "ant" square has...
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Golly (program) (redirect from Golly Cellular Automata Simulator)
Golly is a tool for the simulation of cellular automata. It is free open-source software written by Andrew Trevorrow and Tomas Rokicki; it can be scripted...
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In cellular automata, a replicator is a pattern that produces copies of itself. In the one-dimensional Rule 90 cellular automaton, every pattern is a replicator...
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In a cellular automaton, a finite pattern is called a sawtooth if its population grows without bound but does not tend to infinity. In other words, a sawtooth...
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A rake, in the lexicon of cellular automata, is a type of puffer train, which is an automaton that leaves behind a trail of debris. In the case of a rake...
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Hashlife (category Cellular automaton software)
cellular automata, much more quickly than would be possible using alternative algorithms that simulate each time step of each cell of the automaton....
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photograph depicts an inanimate scene. In cellular automata, a still life can be thought of as an oscillator with unit period. A pseudo still life consists...
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John Horton Conway (category Cellular automatists)
branches of recreational mathematics, most notably the invention of the cellular automaton called the Game of Life. Born and raised in Liverpool, Conway spent...
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In Conway's Game of Life and similar cellular automaton rules, a spark is a small collection of live cells that appears at the edge of some larger pattern...
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