Sequential Substitution Networks

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This Demonstration shows how to construct a causal network from a sequential substitution system. As the substitution system updates blocks of elements at each step, each updating event becomes a node in the causal network (an illustration of how this is done is shown with the evolution on the right). The causal network generated is shown on the left. The rule icon for the system is shown at the top.
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Contributed by: Abigail Nussey (March 2011)
Based on a program by: Oyvind Tafjord
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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For more details on how this causal network is generated, see Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science, pp. 497–503, The Sequencing of Events in the Universe (NKS|Online).
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"Sequential Substitution Networks"
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Published: March 7 2011