Let's start with a simple game, due to John Conway, called the Game of Life. Start with a grid of squares and color each square either black or white (dead or alive). Each square has eight neighbors, ...

To Shakespeare, all the world was a stage. To natural philosophers of Newton’s era, it was a mechanical clock. Physicists of the 19th century viewed reality more like a steam engine. Today a fair ...

The frenetic scurrying of ants around a nest may seem like much ado about nothing. There’s method in the madness, however. All this activity adds up to ingenious strategies for collectively working ...

Well all know cellular automata from Conway’s Game of Life which simulates cellular evolution using rules based on the state of all eight adjacent cells. [Gavin] has been having fun playing with ...

John M. Halley, Hugh N. Comins, J. H. Lawton and M. P. Hassell This paper describes the first cellular automaton model of a multispecies fungal community and presents some of the results of this model ...

Figure 2: Frequency distribution of gap size (length of consecutive non-M. californianus points encountered in random transects) observed in mussel beds of Tatoosh Island, Washington (filled circles; ...

Might treating binary numbers as cellular automata be helpful for the design and implementation of a digital binary counter? As most readers already know, counting in binary is similar to counting in ...

Vol. 16, No. 1, (Special Issue) Time and Space: Scale Dependence of Vegetation Dynamics—Papers Presented at the 34th IAVS Symposium on Mechanisms in Vegetation Dynamics (1992), pp. 49-54 (6 pages) In ...

Your hair -- or lack of hair -- is the result of a lifelong tug-of-war between activators that wake up, and inhibitors that calm, stem cells in every hair follicle on your body. Your hair -- or lack ...