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[faggy automata OP !!B9Y5noNPtD8 No.3556129]

Hi /sci/, can somebody tell me where can i learn about cellular automata? Any site with information for beginers or a book's name would be apreciated.

Pic related, it's a Langton's ant program i made yesterday.

Also, cellular atomata & fractals thread

>tripcode till thread disapear, just in case...

[faggy automata OP !!B9Y5noNPtD8 No.3556138]

shameless bump...

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.3556145]

Well, there's A New Kind of Science which is about Wolfram's research on two-state one-dimensional, turing-complete automata (Rule 110, specifically).

The first chapters of Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines (Available online) discuss the general theory of cellular automata in the context of self-replicating systems, to open the introduction to kinematic (Physical, real-life) self-replicating machines.

[faggy automata OP !!B9Y5noNPtD8 No.3556151]

>>3556145

thanks, but... is that for beginners? i really dont know anything about cellular automata, im just a programming student, although im interested in math too.

So, is it basic enough?

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.3556163]

>>3556151

NKS is pop-sci, technically (I haven't read it, yet). The KSRM not so much, but it's still possible to grasp most of it, if not all, regardless of your background. You have to know general stuff about computers and stuff, but I haven't found a thing I didn't understand, just yet. It's a pretty fucking huge book, though.

[faggy automata OP !!B9Y5noNPtD8 No.3556190]

>>3556163

Thanks, i think i will read KSRM first. If you hadn't found a thing you didn't understand, i should give it a try. Thanks Colonel, i really apreciate your advice.

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.3556193]

Also, alife general.

Here's a screenshot of my Rule 110 program. It doesn't work right ;_;

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.3556204]

>>3556190

Mind you that

>to open the introduction to kinematic (Physical, real-life) self-replicating machines.

it leaves the introduction to cellular automata pretty quick and jumps to self-replicating machines. But I still thought it was a good intro (I also knew very little of the subject)