2D Cellular Automata

Actionscript 3.0 | 06 May 2008 | 2 comments

Actionscript 3.0 | 06 May 2008 | 2 comments

2D Cellular Automata

Actionscript 3 Game of Life

2D Cellular Automata

Inspired by Conway’s game of life (to which I was a late comer but now a devotee!), I decided to program a 2 dimensional Cellular Automaton in Actionscript 3.

I had been reading up on complexity theory for a recent project and the Cellular Automata just kept on rearing its head. Of course it displays the fundamental qualities of complexity; starting with an object following a set of simple rules and then creating multiple instances to form complex and unpredictable patterns. // Read More