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The (16,0) automata

Because of the exceptional role given to central cells in the CAM boards, one way to make all four planes interact with one another is to assume a neighborhood of zero radius. Although the resulting automata are rather trivial (but a goodly number to choose from), they provide an eminently practical way of copying or permuting the bitplanes, setting them to a constant value, and so on. Consequently it is worthwhile to learn how to create such rules.





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