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The purpose of this article is to describe a way to simulate any 3-dimensional cellular automaton with a 2-dimensional cellular automaton. We will present the problems that arise when changing the dimension, propose solutions and discuss the main properties of the obtained simulation.
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Poupet, V. (2004). Simulating 3D Cellular Automata with 2D Cellular Automata. In: Fiala, J., Koubek, V., Kratochvíl, J. (eds) Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 2004. MFCS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3153. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-28629-5_33
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