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Almost-Circular Cellular Automaton

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Even though it operates on a square lattice, this 2D cellular automaton ends up often producing a pattern whose boundary closely approximates a circle.

Contributed by: Stephen Wolfram (March 2011)
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The rule used is outer-totalistic 9-neighbor rule 746.

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