General rules

Although the use of totalistic rules serves to reduce the enormous number of possible automata greatly, it excludes many interesting possibilities arising from a more detailed specification of the evolutionary rules. When k, the number of states per cell, is small, there is not too much which is possible in the way of design, but once it reaches 4 or beyond some interesting constructions become possible.



Harold V. McIntosh
E-mail:mcintosh@servidor.unam.mx