chris martenschrisamaphone@hci.social
Sep 19, 2026, 5:54 PM@TodePond thank you for these! i am teaching CAs soon in my generative methods class and am always looking for examples easily drawn on paper
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Sep 19, 2026, 5:56 PM@chrisamaphone note: these are unlike most CAs like the game of life because these are *asynchronous* CA, whereas game of life is synchronous (ie: all updates happen simultaneously in game of life)
- chris martenschrisamaphone@hci.socialSep 19, 2026, 6:02 PM
@TodePond huh, i'd actually use the opposite words to describe those two behaviors (by analogy with (a)synchronous programming), but i can see why it works your way too!
what order are you processing the cells? left to right top to bottom?
- Sep 19, 2026, 6:06 PM
@chrisamaphone i didn't make up the terms, check it out here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_cellular_automaton
in my paper CA the update scheme (technical term) is: whatever order i choose at the time