Classifying the Complexity and Information of Cellular Automata

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Cellular automata (CA) can be classified according to the complexity and information produced by the behavior of the CA pattern:

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Class 1: Fixed; all cells converge to a constant black or white set Class 2: Periodic; repeats the same pattern, like a loop Class 3: Chaotic; pseudo-random Class 4: Complex local structures; exhibits behaviors of both class 2 and class 3; likely to support universal computation

From the set of possible elementary CA rules, three rules were previously (manually) selected as examples for patterns of CA classes, with random initial condition.

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Contributed by: Daniel de Souza Carvalho (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA


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CA classification by S. Wolfram and parameter by C. Langton.

G. W. Flake, The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998.



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