Cellular automata

n-D cellular automata laboratory.

Pick a dimension and a known rule, then watch its space-time history unfold -- 1D as a 2D image, 2D as an animated grid and a 3D voxel stack, 3D as a scrubbable voxel scene.

dimension:

rule: rule #: width: generations: boundary: initial:

Chaotic (class III) -- used as a pseudorandom-number source; Wolfram's own CA-based RNG.

Visual rule picker

Every possible 3-cell neighborhood (left, center, right); click the square below a neighborhood to toggle what it becomes next.