Theory Elementary cellular automata are defined in a single dimension of quantized space and control a binary state for each cell. They are usually visualized in 2D by mapping the second axis to time. In this context each quantized unit of time corresponds to an evolution of the previous state of the automaton based on a rule. A rule defines how each cell evolves based on the current state of its nearest neighbours and itself. For elementary automata, there is a fixed set of 8 transitions. Th...
