Cellular automata

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1. eggySep 2026
   Yeah, I worked my way through Oscar Toledo's book, "Programming Boot Sector Games". I used to program in 6502 machine language and assembler. If you like Life, you should check out Andrew Ilachinski's book, "Cellular Automata: A Discrete Universe".
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2. eggyApr 2023
   I would recommend reading Andrew Ilachinski's, "Cellular Automata, A Discrete Universe" as mentioned in my original submission post above:

   https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/4702#t...

   It's an amazing book even if it is a couple of decades old now.

   Stephen Wolfram's, "A New Kind of Science" is also good. He has been studying and writing about CAs since the 80s.

   CAs are used for many things. I am just starting to look at Ilachinski's work on combat simulation.

   There was a paper comparing PDEs to CAs a while ago. I'll look up the link.

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3. eggyFeb 2023
   Andrew Ilachinski's book, "Cellular Automata: A Discrete Universe" is phenomenol and broad and covers a lot. Highly recommended if you are into CA.
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4. qubexSep 2017
   I suggest The Computational Beauty Of Nature by Gary William Flake, and then Cellular Automata by Andrew Ilachinski.
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5. syatsJun 2016
   My favorite one is, by far, "Cellular Automata: A Discrete Universe" by Andrew Ilachinski (2001). It goes deep into the juicy details and has only a limited amount of hand waving. You can probably find it in the local math/physics department library, or in the usual internet sources ;)

   There are also some articles from Wolfram that make good introductions. Mostly those from the old days in which "I" wouldn't be the subject of every second of his sentences. In particular:

   Universality and Complexity in Cellular Automata Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 10, no. 1–2 (1984): 1–35

   Computation Theory of Cellular Automata Communications in Mathematical Physics 96, no. 1 (1984): 15–57

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6. eggyApr 2023
   Re-reading parts of Andrew Ilachinski's, 'Cellular Automata: A Discrete Universe' and Wolfram's 'A New Kind of Science', and this classification intrigued me. I was looking for more than the statement on the classes of rules, and I didn't find the formal explanation. Very cool stuff cellular automata! Ilachinski's book is amazing in its scope and still very relevant from it's over twenty-year publication date. I am currently reading his book, 'Artificial War: Multiagent-Based Simulation of Combat'.
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