The Encyclopedia of Artificial Life

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Cellular Automata

Post author:Emily Dolson
Post published:November 9, 2021
Post category:Introductory Resources Soft Artificial Life Sub-fields of Artificial Life

A cellular automaton (plural: cellular automata) is composed of a grid of cells. Traditionally, cells can be in a finite number of discrete states, although some more modern variations on…

Lenia

Post author:Emily Dolson
Post published:November 9, 2021
Post category:Software platforms

Lenia is a class of continuous cellular automata systems. It was the topic of the ISAL Award for outstanding paper of 2019 and an entry in the 2018 ALife Art competition which won an honorable mention.