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Topic: Cellular Automata and Applications ×Clear all

5 claims from 5 papers

1. Computer Science › Cellular Automata and Applications

   What would be conserved if "the tape were played twice"?

   Fontana and Buss · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1994

   The authors build an abstract chemistry in a lambda-calculus-based platform and argue that three features of self-reproduction and self-maintenance would reappear if evolution's tape were replayed.

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   1. Contested · 33%In an abstract, computer-modelled chemistry, hypercycles, self-maintaining organizations and their combinations are argued to be generic, so likely to recur.“We develop an abstract chemistry, implemented in a lambda-calculus-based modeling platform, and argue that the following features are generic to this particular abstraction of chemistry; hence, they would be expected to reappear if "the tape were run twice": (i) hypercycles of self-reproducing obje…”

2. Computer Science › Cellular Automata and Applications

   Lenia: Biology of Artificial Life

   Kong and Chan · Complex Systems · 2019

   The paper presents Lenia, a continuous cellular automaton whose simulations produce many lifelike patterns, which the author surveys, classifies into a taxonomy and discusses in relation to biology and AI.

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   1. Supported · 71%In Lenia, a simulated artificial-life system, more than 400 species in 18 families have been identified, many found through interactive evolutionary computation.“More than 400 species in 18 families have been identified, many discovered via interactive evolutionary computation.”

3. Computer Science › Cellular Automata and Applications

   Lenia and Expanded Universe

   Chan · Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE) · 2020

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   1. Supported · 71%“Using semi-automatic search e.g. genetic algorithm, we discovered new phenomena like polyhedral symmetries, individuality, self-replication, emission, growth by ingestion, and saw the emergence of "virtual eukaryotes" that possess internal division of labor…

4. Computer Science › Cellular Automata and Applications

   How a life-like system emerges from a simplistic particle motion law

   Schmickl, Stefanec and Crailsheim · Scientific Reports · 2016

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   1. Supported · 71%“We discovered a simple motion law for moving and interacting self-propelled particles leading to a self-structuring, self-reproducing and self-sustaining life-like system.”

5. Computer Science › Cellular Automata and Applications

   Conway's Game of Life is Omniperiodic

   Brown, Cheng, Jacobi et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

   The paper reports oscillators with the last two missing periods, 19 and 41, in Conway's Game of Life, and gives a history of the long search for oscillators of every period.

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   1. Supported · 71%Oscillators with periods 19 and 41 have been found in Conway's Game of Life, the last two missing, so Life has oscillators of every period.“The search has finally ended, with the discovery of oscillators having the final two periods, 19 and 41, proving that Life is omniperiodic.”