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{{Short description|2D cellular automaton similar to Conway's Game of Life}} '''Seeds''' is a [[cellular automaton]] in [[Life-like cellular automaton|the same family]] as the [[Conway's Game of Life|Game of Life]], initially ...

{{short description|2D cellular automaton similar to Conway's Game of Life}} ...onway's Life function identically in HighLife. More complicated engineered patterns for one rule, though, typically do not work in the other rule. ...

{{short description|Cellular automaton pattern that emits spaceships}} ...aton)|oscillator]], and that also periodically emits [[spaceship (cellular automaton)|spaceship]]s. There are then two periods that may be considered: the perio ...

{{short description|Type of moving cellular automaton pattern that leaves a repeating pattern of debris behind it}} ...have '''periods''' and '''speeds''', unlike puffers, [[Spaceship (cellular automaton)|spaceship]]s do not leave debris behind. ...

In a [[cellular automaton]], a finite pattern is called a '''spaceship''' if it reappears after a cer ...te to be translated by two cells. More generally, if a spaceship in a 2D automaton with the [[Moore neighborhood]] is translated by <math>(x, y)</math> after ...

In a [[cellular automaton]], an '''oscillator''' is a pattern that returns to its original state, in ...ators in [[Conway's Game of Life]], though this concept generalizes to all cellular automata. ...

[[Image:1dCCA-n4.png|thumb|300px|A one-dimensional cyclic cellular automaton with ''n'' = 4, run for 300 steps from a random initial configuration.]] ...omata can be interpreted as systems of interacting particles, while cyclic cellular automata in higher dimensions exhibit complex spiraling behavior. ...

...patterns that are larger than ten cells have also been called methuselahs. Patterns must eventually stabilize to be considered methuselahs. The term comes from [[Category:Cellular automaton patterns]] ...

...citability]] is the change in [[membrane potential]] that is necessary for cellular responses in various [[tissue (biology)|tissues]]. The [[resting potential] ...media can be modelled using both [[partial differential equation]]s and [[cellular automata]]. ...

...ion of the R-[[pentomino]]. Gliders are the smallest [[Spaceship (cellular automaton)|spaceships]], and they travel diagonally at a speed of one cell every four ...other basic spaceships, and even the pentadecathlon [[oscillator (cellular automaton)|oscillator]]. ...

...as the first to publish on the [[firing squad synchronization problem]] in cellular automata. [[Category:Cellular automatists]] ...

{{short description|Kind of cellular automaton}} ...thumb|240px|The Margolus neighborhood for a two-dimensional block cellular automaton. The partition of the cells alternates between the set of {{math|2 &times; ...

{{short description|Algorithm for speeding up cellular automaton simulations}} ...ng alternative algorithms that simulate each time step of each cell of the automaton. The algorithm was first described by [[Bill Gosper]] in the early 1980s wh ...

{{short description|Elementary cellular automaton}} {{about|the cellular automaton|the United States federal court rule|Federal Rules of Civil Procedure|and|d ...

{{short description|Type of cellular automaton with similarities to Conway's Game of Life}} A [[cellular automaton]] (CA) is '''{{Not a typo|Life-like}}''' (in the sense of being similar to ...

{{short description|Elementary cellular automaton}} ...principle, any calculation or computer program can be simulated using this automaton. ...

...ular automata, a still life can be thought of as an [[Oscillator (cellular automaton)|oscillator]] with unit period.<ref name="weisstein">{{cite web |url=http:/ | book-title = New Constructions in Cellular Automata ...

...decessor. It can be the [[initial condition|initial configuration]] of the automaton but cannot arise in any other way. A Garden of Eden is determined by the state of every cell in the automaton (usually a one- or two-dimensional infinite [[square lattice]] of cells). H ...

...e apparently unanticipated and infinite behaviour based on [[Deterministic automaton|deterministic]] and [[Finite-state machine|finite]] rules and parameters re *[[Cellular automaton|Cellular automata]] are mathematical representations of simple entities interacting ...

...last = Langton | first = Chris G. | title = Studying artificial life with cellular automata | year = 1986 | journal = Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena | volume Langton's ant can also be described as a [[cellular automaton]], where the grid is colored black or white and the "ant" square has one of ...