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Cellular Automata rules lexicon |
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Family: Vote for Life |
Type: totalistic, 1 bit
"Vote for Life" family is by far the simplest family of rules in MCell. Its rules specify only how many alive neighbors (including the cell itself) must exist that the cell is "on". Since cells consider their own state, the total number of neighbors can be 9 (not 8 like in "Life" rules). Every rule in this family can be also represented in "Life" syntax. For example Vote 46789 is equivalent to Life S35678/B4678.
Note that the count of colors has no influence on next generations, as Vote is a one-bit rule.
MJCell Java applet is able to run all rules from this group.
| Name | Rule (L) | Character | Description |
| Fredkin | 13579 | Exploding | Famous Fredkin's replicator. This is the simplest CA rule
which makes patterns self replicate. After 32 steps every starting configuration is
replicated 9 times. A rule by Edward Fredkin. |
| Feux | 1358 | Exploding | Author unknown. |
| Vote 4/5 | 46789 | Collapsing | Also known as "Anneal". The Gerard Vichniac voting rule with 4 and 5 swapped. This variation helps break down the "gridlock" that occurs with straightforward Vote rule. |
| Vote | 56789 | Stable | Standard Gerard Vichniac voting rule, also known as "Majority". |
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Last update: 15 Sep 2001