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<html>
<head>
<title>
CELLULAR_AUTOMATON - Demonstrate 1D Cellular Automaton Rule 30
</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#EEEEEE" link="#CC0000" alink="#FF3300" vlink="#000055">
<h1 align = "center">
CELLULAR_AUTOMATON <br> Demonstrate 1D Cellular Automaton Rule 30
</h1>
<hr>
<p>
<b>CELLULAR_AUTOMATON</b>
is a MATLAB program which
demonstrates the behavior of the 1D Cellular Automaton rule #30.
</p>
<p>
This program carries out iterations of the 1D cellular automaton
known as rule 30.
</p>
<p>
Given an initial linear array of 0's and 1's, rule 30 produces a new
array using transformations based on each value and the value of its
left and right neighbors, as follows:
<pre>
111 110 101 100 011 010 001 000
V V V V V V V V
0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0
</pre>
Note that there are 256 = 2^8 possible ways to fill in this output
chart, and that rule 30 gets its index by the fact that
(0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0) can be interpreted as the binary representation of 30.
</p>
<p>
For instance, if the current values of X(4), X(5) and X(6) are
0, 1 and 1, respectively, then the new value of X(5) will be 1.
</p>
<p>
The first and last entries of the array must be treated specially, since
they don't have a left or right neighbor. One simple treatment is
to assume that there are phantom neighbors whose values are both 0.
Another is to enforce periodic boundary conditions.
</p>
<h3 align = "center">
Licensing:
</h3>
<p>
The computer code and data files described and made available on this
web page are distributed under
<a href = "../../txt/gnu_lgpl.txt">the GNU LGPL license.</a>
</p>
<h3 align = "center">
Languages:
</h3>
<p>
<b>CELLULAR_AUTOMATON</b> is available in
<a href = "../../c_src/cellular_automaton/cellular_automaton.html">a C version</a> and
<a href = "../../cpp_src/cellular_automaton/cellular_automaton.html">a C++ version</a> and
<a href = "../../f77_src/cellular_automaton/cellular_automaton.html">a FORTRAN77 version</a> and
<a href = "../../f_src/cellular_automaton/cellular_automaton.html">a FORTRAN90 version</a> and
<a href = "../../m_src/cellular_automaton/cellular_automaton.html">a MATLAB version</a>.
</p>
<h3 align = "center">
Related Data and Programs:
</h3>
<h3 align = "center">
Reference:
</h3>
<p>
<ol>
<li>
Stephen Wolfram,<br>
A New Kind of Science,<br>
Wolfram Media, 2002,<br>
ISBN13: 978-1579550080,<br>
LC: QA267.5.C45.W67.
</li>
</ol>
</p>
<h3 align = "center">
Source Code:
</h3>
<p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href = "cellular_automaton.m">cellular_automaton.m</a>, the source code.
</li>
<li>
<a href = "timestamp.m">timestamp.m</a>,
prints the YMDHMS date as a timestamp.
</li>
</ul>
</p>
<h3 align = "center">
Examples and Tests:
</h3>
<p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href = "cellular_automaton_output.txt">cellular_automaton_output.txt</a>,
the output file.
</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>
You can go up one level to <a href = "../m_src.html">
the MATLAB source codes</a>.
</p>
<hr>
<i>
Last revised on 17 May 2013.
</i>
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