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W-Rule Demo
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How To Use W-Rule-DemoThis small utility ("W-Rule-Demo.htm") assumes one-dimensional multi-state cellular automata with neighborhood size m=3 and N=16 initial configuration. The user enters the W-Rule maximum number of states and the 2^3=8 coefficients that define the W-Rule.The user then presses EVOLVE and the program evolved values for 16 time steps. HINT: An easy way of generating periodic data (that is the initial input is recovered after a number of evolutions) try to select: Number of States to be a integral power of 2 (eg 4, 8, 16, 32, ….) Select all coefficients of the W-Rule to be all EVEN numbers except one of the first 3 that must have an ODD value. For example, with Number of States:16 W-Rule: 6 11 2 14 4 8 10 12 any initial configuration will be recovered by the 8-th evolution. |