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From: nisidate@dragon.dragon.elc.iwate-u.ac.jp (Kazume Nishidate)
Subject: Re: cellular automata beginner!
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Hi,

In article <5h1t4t$ika$1@cantuc.canterbury.ac.nz> asa19@student.canterbury.ac.nz (Achint) writes:
   From: asa19@student.canterbury.ac.nz (Achint)
   Newsgroups: comp.theory.cell-automata,comp.ai.alife
   Subject: cellular automata beginner!
   Date: Sun, 23 Mar 97 00:22:45 GMT
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   As part of my final year project  I have to do some work on cellular automata. 
   Could anyone recommend me a good book or even better some good online 

There are some references;

[1] Stephen Wolfram, {\em Theory and Applications of
Cellular Automata\/} (World Scientific, Singapore, 1986).

[2] MIT Lab. for Comp. Sci., Inf. Mech. Grp., {\em CAM8: a
Parallel, Uniform, Scalable Architecture for CA Experimentation}
(``http://www.im.lcs.mit.edu/cam8'', 1996) .

[3] T. Toffoli, M. Margolus, {\em Cellular Automata
Machines}, MIT Press, Cambridge MA, (1987).

[4] D. Stauffer, {\em Fractals and Disordered Systems},
2nd ed., Armin Bunde and Shlomo Havlin eds., 339-365 (Springer -
Verlag, 1995).

In addition to the above references, many other examples including
various material systems of CA simulations are presented in the
book "Modeling Nature", for example;

The Game of Life, Traffic Engineering, Spinodal Decomposition and
Phase ordering in Binary Mixtures, Solidification, Snowflakes,
Interacting Random Walkers, Interfacial Diffusion Fronts and Gradient
Percolation, Two-Species Driven Diffusion, Coalescence,
dsorption-Desorption, Chemotaxis, Ant Colony Activity, Predator-Prey
Ecosystems, Contagion in Exciteable Media, The Evolution of
Cooperation and the Spatial Prisoner's Dilemma Game

[5] Richard J. Gaylord and Kazume Nishidate, {\em Modeling
Nature: Cellular Automata Simulations with Mathematica\/} (TELOS /
Springer - Verlag, 1996).


I hope these references are helpful for your final year project :-).

--- supplement --- 
for the RWCA model presented in the MN book, there is the reference of;
[6] K. Nishidate, M. Baba and R. J. Gaylord:
Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 77} (1996) 1675.

for the Mathematica programming (which was used as a programming 
language of MN book);
[7] Richard J. Gaylord, Samuel N. Kamin and Paul
R. Wellin, {\em An Introduction to Programming with Mathematica}, 2nd
ed., (TELOS / Springer - Verlag 1996).

good day,

--
- mathematica hacker -
Kazume Nishidate / nisidate@dragon.elc.iwate-u.ac.jp
