Rule 30
Elementary cellular automaton, Rule 30
A 121-cell one-dimensional automaton evolved 70 generations from a single seed; runs of ON cells drawn as rectangle outlines. Rule 30 is the textbook case of a simple rule generating apparent randomness.
Paper / citationStephen Wolfram, “Statistical mechanics of cellular automata,” Rev. Mod. Phys. 55:601 (1983); A New Kind of Science (2002).
https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.55.601
https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.55.601
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