2D Cellular Automaton Animations

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This Demonstration explores patterns generated by 2D cellular automaton rules depending only on the number of black cells surrounding a given cell. Each rule exhibits a distinctive behavior when run for a large number of steps.
Contributed by: Kovas Boguta (March 2011)
Additional contributions by: Theodore Gray
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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The particular rule space explored here is made up of 9-neighbor outer totalistic rules.
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"2D Cellular Automaton Animations"
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/2DCellularAutomatonAnimations/
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Published: March 7 2011