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Patterns from All Possible Elementary Cellular Automata

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Different cellular automaton rules typically produce different patterns. But this Demonstration shows what happens if one averages patterns from a sequence of possible rules. Notice how the rule 90 pattern seems to visually stand out, even when all the rules are averaged.

Contributed by: Stephen Wolfram (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA

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