Drawdown Automata, Part 4: A Few Good Rules
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Part 4 of Ralph Griswold's Drawdown Automata series, on choosing cellular automaton rules that generate attractive pattern sequences for weave design. It explains how to pick starting patterns (a symmetric 19-by-19 pattern and an asymmetric one) and which rules to avoid, such as the standard Game of Life, the voting rule and the 1-of-8 rule. It recommends four rules: the von Neumann and Moore parity rules and two Game of Life variations (Life /123 and Life /234). Figures show the pattern sequences each rule produces from the two starting patterns.
- Type
- Web Doc
- Date
- March 4, 2002
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 4
- Archive notes
- Last revised August 1, 2004
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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