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>From: stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini)
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Subject: Re: Cellular Automata
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Date: 17 Sep 92 19:57:16 GMT
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In article <1992Sep16.123907.25422@newstand.syr.edu> dbarberi@mothra.syr.EDU (London W11) writes:
>   Has anyone tried writing a 3D Life system?  You'd have to change the 
>rules a bit; instead of having 8 neighbor cells you will have 26!   

It has been done many times. A good display takes work.
The is a Scientific American math rec article on some good rule sets
around 1989.


