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>From: altenbur@plains.NoDak.edu (Karl Altenburg)
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Subject: Re^2: Life in 3D
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Date: 23 Sep 92 18:13:10 GMT
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nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle) writes:

>>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 turns out reducing Life to 1D is more productive.

>					John Nagle

It may be more productive in the sense that you will be able to produce
more images faster, but I think 1D CA have been well studied by Wolfram
(I don't know for sure.)  The big draw back to 3D CA is the computational
power required and displaying the images.  Again look at Carter Bays work.
I think 3D CA's would serve well to model 3D real world systems, but
may require a couple of Cellular Automata Machines or a Connection machine
or two.

If you are interested read the  comp.theory.cell-automata  newgroup.


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Karl R Altenburg				altenbur@plains.NoDak.edu
North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND  58105

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.  SIR THOMAS BROWNE


