Current version of MCell handles 15 different Cellular Automata families, with many interesting rules each. I did my best to find authors of all rules I present here, anyhow some rules still miss this information. If you can help me in finding them, I will be very thankful. I'm also sorry if I didn't put the right discoverer to a rule. Some rules were also found independently by several persons. If you think you know the real discoverer, please let me know.
Family of rules | Abbrev. | Type |
1-D totalistic CA | 1DCA | 1D, totalistic or outer totalistic with decay |
1-D binary CA | 1DBI | 1D, binary, with optional decay |
Cyclic CA | CYCL | 2D, cyclic totalistic |
General binary | GEBI | 2D, binary, in Moore and von Neumann neighborhood, with optional decay |
Generations | GENE | 2D, outer totalistic with decay |
Larger than Life | LGTL | 2D, totalistic or outer totalistic with or without decay, in extended neighborhood |
Life | LIFE | 2D, outer totalistic |
Margolus | MARG | 2D, binary, in Margolus neighborhood |
Neumann binary | NMBI | 2D, binary, in von Neumann neighborhood |
Rules tables | RTAB | 2D, totalistic or outer totalistic rules table |
Special rules | SPEC | 2D, depends to the rule |
User DLLs | UDLL | 1D and 2D, any neighborhood |
Vote for Life | VOTE | 2D, totalistic |
Weighted Generations | WGEN | 2D, totalistic or outer totalistic parameterization with optional decay |
Weighted Life | WLIF | 2D, totalistic or outer totalistic parameterization with optional decay |
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Last update: 20 Sep 2001