Cellular Automata Links

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Below you will find a list of sites that were helpful in understanding Cellular Automata and making MCell and MJCell. This links collection is also mirrored at the Open Directory Project.

• Conway's Game of Life
• General Cellular Automata

Conway's Game of Life

• Achim Flammenkamp's Game of Life Page - Collection of resources on Conway's Game of Life.
• Conway's Game of Life Java applet by Alan Hensel - A very fast Java applet that displays a collection of the greatest patterns ever created in Conway's Game of Life.
• David Ingalls Bell's Homepage - Articles on Conway's Game of Life and related Cellular Automata, free Unix software, archives of Life and other CA patterns.
• Dean Hickerson's Game of Life page - A collection of Life patterns designed by the author.
• Eric's Treasure Trove of Life - Eric W. Weisstein's home page about Conway's Game of Life and related CA. Tutorial, information, patterns, links, references.
• Games of Life in color - Black&White, Rainbow Life, and RGB averaging, by Gunnar Johnsson.
• Gliders in "Life"-Like Systems - An online interactive database of rules with gliders, by David Eppstein.
• Greedles live and die - Game of Life in Shockwave.
• Jason's Life Page - Patterns and resources for Conway's Game of Life and related Cellular Automata by Jason Summers.
• John Conway's Game of Life - Simple implementation of GOL in Java, by Edwin Martin.
• Life32 - Home page for Life32, The best Conway's Game of Life simulator for 32-bit Windows. By Johan Bontes.
• LifeInfo - Catalogs and other information about Conway's Game of Life cellular automata, by H. Koenig.
• LifeLab for Macs - Andrew Trevorrow's Macintosh application for exploring John Conway's Game of Life and other 2D cellular automata.
• LIFE.M2M - Game of Life in M2M.
• LIFEPAGE - Robert T. Wainwright's Lifepage; Lifeline magazine.
• Mark D. Niemiec's Home Page - John Horton Conway's Game of Life, including complete lists and glider syntheses of smaller still-lifes, oscillators, and spaceships.
• Paul Callahan's Page of Conway's Life Miscellany - Patterns, Programs, and Links for Conway's Game of Life
• Stephen Silver's Life Page - Home page of Life Lexicon. Life patterns, links.

General Cellular Automata

• Artificial Life - Cellular Automata - Online introduction to Cellular Automata, CA FAQ, description of the 1D CA.
• CA-Browser - Beta version of the CA-Browser, an innovative combination of Java and Java-Script that allows to browse through a large number of one-dimensional CA-rules, by Martin Schaller.
• Cafun - A powerful CA application for simulating complex systems; by André Homeyer.
• CAOS, One-Dimensional Cellular Automata - A very interesting Java applet running one-dimensional CAs. By Martin Schaller.
• Capow - Cellular Automata & Electric Power - Rudy Rucker's ongoing research project. Features new kinds of continuous-valued Cellular Automata for use in simulating the flow of electricity in a powergrid.
• Cellular Automata - Introduction to 1D and 2D CA by Andreas Ehrencrona. Java applets.
• Cellular Automata - Good source of information on history and properties of 1D and 2D Cellular Automata.
• Cellular Automata and Complex Systems - Tomoaki Suzudo's Home Page concentrating on the 5-neighbour (von Neumann) neighbourhood. Java applets.
• Cellular Automata and the Edge of Chaos - David J. Eck's Java-illustrated introduction to 1-dimensional CA.
• Cellular Automata Examples - Gil Bub shows how cellular automata are being used to model cardiac dynamics.
• Cellular Automata Laboratory - CelLab manuals on-line by Rudy Rucker and John Walker.
• Cellular Automata Music - Music samples generated using some popular CA rules. By John Elliott.
• Cellular Automata Tutorial - an essay by Alexander Schatten.
• Cellular Automata Viewer - CAV for Windows software by J. P. Prennar. CA and ALife links.
• Cellular Computations - Theoretical introduction to finite automata, cellular automata, iterons and solitons, by Pawel Siwak.
• Discrete Dynamics Lab - Tools for researching discrete dynamical networks - from Cellular Automata to Random Boolean Networks and beyond. By Andy Wuensche.
• Dr. J Dana Eckart's CA page - Introduction to Cellular Automata, interesting rules, free software, links.
• Dynamics of Cellular Automata - Rafael Espericueta's Cellular Automata Dynamics home page. Slide shows.
• Exploring Emergence - Java-based active essay on complexity concepts by Mitchel Resnick and Brian Silverman.
• Four-Dimensional CA - Four-Dimensional Cellular Automata and The Game of Life, by Lee Meeker.
• From cellular mitosis to cellular automata - Michael D. Bayne's CA survey.
• Generation5 - An Artificial Intelligence portal; news, essays, interviews, software reviews, bulletin board; by James Matthews.
• Hexatron - A Java demonstration of cellular automata on a hexagonal grid.
• Howard Gutowitz's Home Page - Papers and preprints about Cellular Automata, Chaos, Complexity, and Dynamical Systems.
• IFIP Working Group 1.5 - IFIP WG Cellular Automata and Machines home page. Resources on CA.
• Java Fractal & Cellular Automata Nuts - Fractals, Chaos and Cellular Automata. Java applets.
• Jeffrey Ventrella's Artificial Life - A collection of Jeffrey's AL programs, including a very original "Breeding gliders with CA" simulator. Papers on Artificial Life.
• Larger than Life - Kellie Michele Evans' PhD thesis.
• LifeBox applet - 2D Cellular Automata Java applet by Scott Robert Ladd.
• Lotus Artificial Life - Reversible Cellular Automata, neighbourhoods, billiard ball machines, Java applets. By Tim Tyler.
• Mirek's Cellebration - 1D and 2D Cellular Automata viewer, explorer and editor by Mirek Wojtowicz. Huge libraries of CA rules and patterns. Gallery of CA rules. Java applets. Free 32-bit Windows software.
• Mirek's Java Cellebration - General Cellular Automata Java applet running over 200 rules from 12 CA families, equipped with a big library of patterns. By Mirek Wojtowicz.
• MIT Information Mechanics Group - Research regarding CAM-8 and Cellular Automata, and the physics of computation.
• Moshe Sipper's Home Page - Fine theoretical and practical introduction to Cellular Automata, ALife, and Complex Adaptive Systems.
• Paul Saretok's CA Page - Cellular Automata art exhibition with many different CA rules implemented as Java applets.
• The Primordial Soup Kitchen - Colorful images and Java movies of Cellular Automata, with recipes to explain their genesis. Also some tasty Real Recipes. By David Griffeath.
• SARCASim - Home Page of SARCASim (Animation-Reduction Cellular Automata Simulator) and ARCAL language, by George Maydwell.
• SDSR Loops - Structurally Dissolvable Self-Reproducing Loop & Evoloop, by Hiroki Sayama.
• Searching for Chaos in Cellular Automata - "New toolsfor CA classification" by Paola Flocchini and Frédéric Geurts.
• Self Reproducing Cellular Automata Loops - Christopher Osborn's Java applet exploring self-reproducing patterns.
• Simon Benjamin's project display - Original adding and multiplying CA, illustrated with Java applets.
• Stephen Wolfram's articles on Cellular Automata - Technical articles by one of the leading CA researchers, concerning both 1D and 2D Cellular Automata.
• Stone's Free Mac Programs - Many free CA, ALife, and Chaos programs for Macintosh.
• Strange Universe - A triangular cellular automaton (with free software for Macintosh), by Keith Wiley.
• Templarser - A collection of interesting articles about Mathematics, Chaos, Fractals etc. Some of them refer to Cellular Automata. By Lee Borell.
• Visions of Chaos - home page of a uniquely versatile Windows software by Jason Rampe. The program covers Cellular Automata, Chaos, and Fractals.
• Webside CA - the ~Isle Ex~ CA Explorer - Powerful 2D Cellular Automata Java applet by John Elliott.
• XToys - A set of Cellular Automata simulators written for XWindows. By Mike Creutz.
• Zooland - The Artificial Life Resource. A large (190+) collection of ALife and Cellular Automata links.

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