cellular automaton

cellular automaton
An automaton consisting of cells arranged in a regular grid, in one or more dimensions.

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  • Asynchronous cellular automaton — Cellular automata, as with other multi agent system models, usually treat time as discrete and state updates as occurring synchronously. The state of every cell in the model is updated together, before any of the new states influence other cells …   Wikipedia

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  • Movable cellular automaton — method Movable cellular automaton actively changed self neighbors by means switching neighbors state from linked to unlinked and vice versa (modeling of contact interaction) Method type Continuous/Discrete Discrete …   Wikipedia

  • Cyclic cellular automaton — A one dimensional cyclic cellular automaton with n = 4, run for 300 steps from a random initial configuration. The cyclic cellular automaton is a cellular automaton rule developed by David Griffeath and studied by several other cellular automaton …   Wikipedia

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  • Life-like cellular automaton — A cellular automaton (CA) is Life like (in the sense of being similar to Conway s Game of Life) if it meets the following criteria: The array of cells of the automaton has two dimensions. Each cell of the automaton has two states (conventionally… …   Wikipedia

  • Quantum dot cellular automaton — Quantum Dot Cellular Automata (sometimes referred to simply as quantum cellular automata, or QCA) Any device designed to represent data and perform computation, regardless of the physics principles it exploits and materials used to build it, must …   Wikipedia

  • Codd's cellular automaton — A simple configuration in Codd s cellular automaton. Signals pass along wire made of cells in state 1 (blue) sheathed by cells in state 2 (red). Two signal trains circulate around a loop and are duplicated at a T junction onto an open ended… …   Wikipedia

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