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Cellular Automaton: Encyclopedia - Cellular Automaton
A cellular automaton (plural: cellular automata) is a discrete model studied in computability theory, mathematics, and theoretical biolog...
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Cellular Automaton: Encyclopedia Ii - Cellular Automaton - History Of Cellular Automata
Stanislaw Ulam, while working at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the 1940s, studied the growth of crystals, using a simple lattice ...
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Cellular Automaton: Encyclopedia Ii - Cellular Automaton - Cellular Automata In Nature
Patterns of certain seashells, like the ones in Conus and Cymbiola genus, are generated by natural cellular automata. The pigment cells r...
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Cellular Automaton: Encyclopedia Ii - Cellular Automaton - Related Automata
There are many possible generalizations of the CA concept.
One way is by using something other than a rectangular (cubic, etc.) grid. For...
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Cellular Automaton: Encyclopedia Ii - Cellular Automaton - Uses In Cryptography
Rule 30 was originally suggested as a possible stream cipher for use in cryptography.
Cellular automata have been proposed for public key...
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Cellular Automaton: Encyclopedia Ii - Cellular Automaton - The Simplest Cellular Automata
The simplest nontrivial CA would be one-dimensional, with two possible states per cell, and a cell's neighbors defined to be the adjacent...
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Cellular Automaton: Encyclopedia Ii - Cellular Automaton - Reversible Cellular Automata
A CA is said to be reversible if for every current configuration of the CA there is exactly one past configuration (preimage). If one thi...
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