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>From: minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky)
Subject: Re: Cellular Automata
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In article <1992Sep16.123907.25422@newstand.syr.edu> dbarberi@mothra.syr.EDU (London W11) writes:
>In article <EehWFly00aw=4DQlx4@andrew.cmu.edu> sl4q+@andrew.cmu.edu (Scott T. Lillis) writes:
>>I have been researching Cellular Automata similar to the popular "Life
>>Hack" program.  I have been looking in to more in depth algorithms than
>>the one found in life hack, using relatively more complex boolean
>>algebra to devise of a control structure.  If anyone has any ideas on
>>this subject in general, I'd like to here it.
> 
>   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!   

You could use just 6 neighbors -- the cubes that share faces.  I
presume that no one yet knows the minimum numbers of
states-and-symbols the cells need in order to make a universal
computer.  It was many years before the Conway cellular array was
proven to be Universal.


