... fifty six possible rules. These rules are either legal or illegal. Legal rules must have initial states of all 0's while have symmetry which is reflective and identical values. I.e. 100 and 001 have identical values. There are only thirty two of these legal rules in this scenario. Good models can allow us to look at physical, biological and sociological phenomena. This is because each cell updates independently of any of the others. A cellular automaton also allows us to easily extend the model based upon the assumptions we make and any alternatives we may think of later. The observation we gather from the output of these models can represent a real life system since the output from the model is similar. [4] They also have an easy implementation and are very robust as they continue to perform even if one cell is faulty. They also cover the whole of the dimensions of ...

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