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This Demonstration shows the evolution of a mobile automaton as a causal network. Connections are the causal relationships between updating events, which are nodes of the network.

Contributed by: Abigail Nussey
Based on a program by: Oyvind Tafjord

For details on how you get from the regular array representation of a mobile automaton evolution to the network evolution, see Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science, pp. 486–489, Time and Causal Networks.

Time and Causal Networks (NKS|Online)

"Causal Network Generated by a Mobile Automaton" from the Wolfram Demonstrations Project
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/CausalNetworkGeneratedByAMobileAutomaton/

Contributed by: Abigail Nussey

Based on a program by: Oyvind Tafjord

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