Frequently Asked Questions
About Cellular Automata

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Generalities.

What are CA? General references on CA? What is the CA list? Good topics in CA?

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Software and Hardware.

Packages for running CA, and related (Lindenmeyer systems, Coupled Map Lattices etc).
Issues related to programming CA. Hardware.

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Conway's Game of Life

More than you want to know about Conway's Game of Life. (Life-specific software here).

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Applications.

Use of CA in: Physics, Biology, Computer Science, Sociology, Artificial Life.

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Structure of the Space of CA.

How is the space of CA organized? Classification schemes and the like.

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Special Types of CA.

Hodge-Podge Rule, Vants.

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Lattice Gas Automata

Lattice gas automata are used to model fluid flow.

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Properties of CA.

Discussion of reversibility, computational classes, cycles, transients, invariant measures.

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Related Systems

Connections to other types of models and dynamical systems.

Differential equations, CML, NN, Kauffman Nets.

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Miscellaneous

Issues like graph theory or finite languages, which are used in the study of CA

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Bibliography.

940 references on CA in bibtex format and growing. (If you know of something that should be here and isn't, mail FAQ editor.)

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A great way to search the ca-faq bibliography.

Related Web sites.

A collection of other sites with information (software, tutorials, articles) about CA and related systems.

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Pages pointing to this FAQ

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Loose Threads.

Bags of mail on various CA-related subjects.