This simulation is a reproduction of the experiments of Stephen Wolfram
in "A New Kind of Science" (Chapters 2 and 3). This is a simple
8 bit Cellular Autonoma Simulation. Each pattern rendered below is the
end result of a single ruleset of cellular autonoma (as described in ANKOS).
You may use the list box to choose from a predetermined list of cool
looking patterns or click in the viewable area of the applet to choose
a random pattern in the ruleset (0 to 255, inclusive). Each pattern is
rendered in the same fashion as the rest, the only diffence being the
ruleset used to determine it's outcome. The ruleset can be explained as
follows: the "previous line" is literally the last rendered line of pixels
and the output color is the literally the color it will render when that
particular condition is found.
| Ruleset 255 (11111111) |
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So ruleset 30 would be determined as such...
| Ruleset 30 (00011110) |
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You can also download the JAR
(Java Application Resource) file
(rename it to .jar if it tries to download it as a htm file) and run it
on your PC directly. You will have to have the
JDK 1.4.0
installed from Sun though.
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