Registered: Nov 2008
Posts: 39

Hello,

Please, what i'll say is right or no?

About CA two dimensions, with 2 states(black/white), five neightbors, we have (2power2power5) rules .?!

So the rules will be codified with 32 binary number (0...31).

i tried this, but i can't find the same figure in this pages:
www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/page-173 www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/page-174

Is the code 475 the same rule 475?

Please, the rules in the section of notes
are wroten with wich language???

For example this:
CAStep[rule_, a_] := Map[rule[[10-#]] &,
ListConvolve[{{0, 2, 0}, {2, 1, 2}, {0, 2, 0}}, a, 2], {2}]
Thanks in advance.

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For a general CA rule, yes that is true. The rules shown in the book at a special case with extra symmetries, called "outer totalistic" rules. See the thread "Unpacking NKS codes" for details.

The implementation notes in the back of the book at written in Mathematica. Mathematica now has a built in function to evolve all kinds of CAs, called simple CellularAutomaton. Which is much easier to use than the older code you see in the notes. That is what I used in the examples I gave you in the previous thread.

I hope this helps.

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Registered: Nov 2008
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Hello,

I understand some things, but my problem
is how we can apply the rules, for example for 545 rule, i obtain this figure, it's not like in the book:
I think that the rule is applicated like that:

if(oldCell[i][j]==0 &&
oldCell[i][left]==0&&
oldCell[i][right]==1
&&oldCell[top][j]==0&&
oldCell[bottom][j]==0)
cell[i][j]=binaryRule[1];

where binaryRule is the 454 on binary.

Thanks in advance

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