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In Search of Movement and Life on a Static Grid

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Designing Beauty: The Art of Cellular Automata

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The search for life-like processes that can be simulated on computer has led to many types of proposed systems. Of these, cellular automata are one of the most venerable and one of the most visually appealing.

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Hutton, T.J. (2016). In Search of Movement and Life on a Static Grid. In: Adamatzky, A., Martínez, G. (eds) Designing Beauty: The Art of Cellular Automata. Emergence, Complexity and Computation, vol 20. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27270-2_6

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