Supplement to Cellular Automata

The 256 Rules

As we have seen, in one-dimensional cellular automata with range = 1 and only two states there are 8 possible neighbors to be mapped to {1, 0}, giving a total of 256 possible rules. For illustration purposes, we collected the 200 time-steps evolution of all the 256 elementary rules (black = 1, white = 0), ordered by the Wolfram’s code: for any CA, at \(t_0\) only the cell in the middle is black. To be sure, even if a rule is a Class 4 this does not guarantee that it will produce complex behavior starting from any possible configuration—as rule 54 clearly proves: compare its behavior below with the picture showed in the main entry.

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