Fans of Conway's Game of Life may appreciate this system, which has similar characteristics but has a continuously variable state at each point in a continuous domain (vs. cellular automata, which are discrete in both aspects). Here are some patterns: mrob.com/pub/comp/xmorphia/catalog.html and relevant videos: youtube.com/watch?v=IBrPnp3025I youtube.com/watch?v=-k98XOu7pC8 youtube.com/watch?v=ypYFUGiR51c The system includes still-lifes, spaceships, rotaters (the nearest equivalent to oscillators), chaotic patterns and a bunch of other stuff. It is a common reaction-diffusion model but with very specific parameter values. More here: mrob.com/pub/comp/xmorphia/uskate-world.html -- Robert Munafo -- mrob.com Follow me at: mrob27.wordpress.com - twitter.com/mrob_27 - youtube.com/user/mrob143 - rilybot.blogspot.com