Team:ETH Zurich/project/overview/summarysimple

From 2014.igem.org

You might be wondering where these patterns on snea snail shells come from. What if they would come from a simple rule, followed by all cells on the shell ?

   
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
Automaton Explorer
    

    rule: 30
    
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From MathWorld:
    "A cellular automaton is a collection of 'colored' cells on a grid of
    specified shape that evolves through a number of discrete time steps
    according to a set of rules based on the states of neighboring cells." This
    example explores binary, nearest-neighbor, one-dimensional automata, of
    which there are 256 (28) possible rules. The eight possible
    outcomes for the current rule are shown across the top; click to toggle the
    selected bit.