Encyclopedia - Artificial Life: Encyclopedia - Artificial Life
Artificial life, also known as alife or a-life, is the study of life through the use of human-made analogs of living systems. Computer sc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cellular Automaton: Encyclopedia - Cellular Automaton
A cellular automaton (plural: cellular automata) is a discrete model studied in computability theory, mathematics, and theoretical biolog...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Artificial Life: Encyclopedia Ii - Artificial Life - History And Contributions
Artificial life - Pre-computer. A few inventions of the pre-digital era were early heralds of humankind's fascination with artificial l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Artificial Life: Encyclopedia Ii - Artificial Life - History And Contributions
Artificial life - Pre-computer. A few inventions of the pre-digital era were early heralds of humankind's fascination with artificial l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 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 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Artificial Life: Encyclopedia Ii - Artificial Life - Nature Of The Field
Although the study of artificial life does have some significant overlap with the study of artificial intelligence (AI), the two fields a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 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...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 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...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 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...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 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...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Artificial Life: Encyclopedia Ii - Artificial Life - Nature Of The Field
Although the study of artificial life does have some significant overlap with the study of artificial intelligence (AI), the two fields a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 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...   » Read the article