Do people who work on things like this use computers' pattern-hunting abilities to guide the design process? And, do they write their own programs, or do they make use of off-the-shelf code? It seems to me that someone who wants the design of cellular automata to become a "new kind of engineering" should have created a suite of tools facilitating exactly this sort of thing, featuring not just efficient simulation but also automated analysis. But I'm not aware of there being general-purpose tools along these lines, within or outside of Mathematica. Jim Propp On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Adam P. Goucher <apgoucher@gmx.com> wrote:
A couple of people from Kyoto University have discovered a glider in a 3-state cellular automaton on a Penrose tiling together with a glider gun in a related automaton:
http://cp4space.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/miscellany/
Sincerely,
Adam P. Goucher
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