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Localization dynamics in a binary two-dimensional cellular automaton: the Diffusion Rule (0908.0828v1)
Published 6 Aug 2009 in cs.FL
Abstract: We study a two-dimensional cellular automaton (CA), called Diffusion Rule (DR), which exhibits diffusion-like dynamics of propagating patterns. In computational experiments we discover a wide range of mobile and stationary localizations (gliders, oscillators, glider guns, puffer trains, etc), analyze spatio-temporal dynamics of collisions between localizations, and discuss possible applications in unconventional computing.