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Aesthetics and Randomness in Cellular Automata

Part of the Emergence, Complexity and Computation book series (ECC,volume 20)

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We propose two images obtained with an asynchronous and a stochastic cellular automaton (CA). Deterministic cellular automata are now well-studied models and even if there is still so much to understand, their main properties are now largely explored. By contrast, the universe of asynchronous and stochastic is mainly a terra incognita. Only a few islands of this vast continent have been discovered so far. The two examples below present space-time diagrams of one-dimensional cellular automata with nearest-neighbour interaction.

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Fatès, N. (2016). Aesthetics and Randomness in Cellular Automata. In: Adamatzky, A., Martínez, G. (eds) Designing Beauty: The Art of Cellular Automata. Emergence, Complexity and Computation, vol 20. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27270-2_23

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