Cellular Automaton Builder
Cellular Automaton Builder
The official app & game
Distributed by UptoPlay
SCREENSHOTS
DESCRIPTION
Use UptoPlay to play online the game Cellular Automaton Builder.
A Cellular Automaton is a grid of cells, each in a certain state, that changes and behaves a certain way based on a set of rules. Cellular Automata were first created by Stansilaw Ulam and John Von Neumann in the 1940's, and made famous by the popular "Game of Life" rule set created by John Conway in the 1970's. Today Cellular Automata are not only fun to create, but also serve practical uses such procedural generation and simulation of complex systems in physics, chemistry, and biology.
To learn more visit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_automaton
https://mathworld.wolfram.com/CellularAutomaton.html
https://natureofcode.com/book/chapter-7-cellular-automata/
Features:
Choose between Square or Hexagonal grids
Create states with an editable name and color
Create rules with conditions that change a cells state
- Determine how set of conditions work using common bitwise logic (AND, OR, XOR, NAND, NOR, XNOR)
Create and change board's size up to 500x500 cells
Save states, rules, and board to a certain name, with the ability to load or change name later
Fill board
- choose total percent of board
- choose what percent of total each state fills
Change how fast the CA updates
Revert board to previous state
Easily edit board using manual or automatic draw mode
Designed and developed by Tyler Lang
Using graphics downloaded from https://dribbble.com/shots/2488469-Basic-Ui-Set
Enjoy with UptoPlay the online game Cellular Automaton Builder.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Developer: Tyler T Lang
Genre: Educational
App version: 1.2.1
App size: 21M
Recent changes: -Added ability to change square CA neighborhood type
-Fixed scaling issue
Comments:
Not a game so much as an excellent CA explorer with some great options for custom rulesets. It's limited compared to most other apps like it except for one redeeming feature: the ability to create any number of transition rules btw. different states, allowing for some great unique CAs. The lack of updates is unfortunate, but i often use it on mobile as frequently as Golly, Geza, etc...
This is the best version of Conway's Game of Life I've seen yet, by virtue of the fact that you can play Brian's Brain, and Wireworld as well. It also has options to change tye game rules, so you can easily program in Inkspot, Anneal, High Life or anything else in that family of automatons.
Well with a look. The UI can be a bit frustrating, and of course it's always possible to wish for more features, but it's very intuitive to define transition rules and watch them play out.
Pretty good game. Would be a bit better with some more features like cells that can have larger radiuses
its a very good app, has built in ca's and is easy to use and understand"
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