The triangular space-time diagram of elementary cellular automaton Rule 30, regular on one flank and irregular on the other.

Rule 30

Wolfram, 1983. One seed cell, three hundred generations.

A one-dimensional automaton in which each cell’s next state depends on itself and its two neighbours by a fixed table. From one live cell it produces a pattern that has resisted every attempt at a closed form.

Field
Cellular automata
Nature
Exact computation of a published object; not a Lixiviant result.
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