Contents

• Introduction
  • LCA.C
  • LCAU.C
    • General rules
    • Demonstrations
      • Binary counter
      • Glider gluon demonstration
      • Jumping bean
      • Gliders of two velocities
    • Block probabilities
    • de Bruijn diagrams
  • LCAU.C: SECOND SERIES
    • Ancestors, Garden of Eden
    • REC programs
    • Randomly connected cells
    • Chaté-Manneville automata
    • Mouse buttons
• Interdependence of submenus
• Copyright notice
• Main menu
  • Rule editing
    • Full rules
    • Totalistic rules
    • Semitotalistic rules
  • Line editing
    • Line editing menu
• Full screen evolution
• Probabilistic menu
  • Binary automata
  • Trinary automata
  • Quaternary automata
  • More than four states
  • More than one dimension
• The de Bruijn menu
  • (2,1) de Bruijn diagrams
  • Other de Bruijn diagrams
  • Sample periods
  • Cycles
• Ancestor menu
  • General menu
  • Survey options
    • Variance histogram
    • Classification by length
    • Enumeration of reversible rules
• Undocumented commands
  • Field preparation and analysis
  • Generating a demonstration
  • Selecting a video display mode
  • Product rules
  • Reversible rules
  • special commands for rule design
  • options within rule minimenus
• REC programs
  • The language
  • Defining programs
  • Operators and predicates
  • The REC menu for PROBKR
• Design of rules
  • The counter itself
    • Infrastructure
      • quiescent background
      • first bistable state - ZERO
      • left running glider - CARRY
      • second bistable state - ONE
    • Binary arithmetic
      • flip ZERO, absorb CARRY
      • flip ONE, propagate CARRY
    • Packing bistable cells
      • Gap between like cells
      • Gap between unlike cells
    • Carry generator
      • a glider gun
    • Protecting the components
      • protection of phase 22
      • protection of phase 13
      • protection of phase 11
      • some additional protection
  • Table of transitions
  • Using the line editor
    • Position cursor
    • Enter state
    • Maintainance of the line panel
    • Defining transitions
    • Trial evolution
    • Consistency
    • Prescribed evolution
• Chaté-Manneville automata
  • Using these programs
  • Keyboard options
  • Analysis of the options
    • Palette selection
    • Select dimension and randomness
      • Degree of randomness
      • Select dimension
    • Help, information, housekeeping
      • Option menu
      • Parameter menu
      • Clear panel
    • Mean field probability
      • Rigorous probabilities
      • Monte Carlo probabilities
    • Iterated mean field
      • Iteration of the full range
      • Iteration of individual points
    • Sample evolution
      • One dimension
      • Higher dimension
      • Triple section
    • Frequencies in succeeding generations
      • One generation
      • 50 generations
      • 200 generations
      • Every third generation, 50 times
      • Every third generation, 200 times
      • Time series
      • Histogram
    • Synthesizing a return map
    • Block probabilities
      • Block probabilities
      • Frequencies and pair frequencies
      • Neighborhood frequencies
      • A priori probabilities
      • Entropy
    • Random rule
      • Place rule in table
      • Define parameter pr
    • Random line
      • Set up a configuration
      • Define parameter pl
    • Hiplot services
    • Miscellaneous
  • Function keys
• Acknowledgements
• About this document ...