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Circular Motion of Strings in Cellular Automata, and Other Surprises

Daniel B. Miller, Edward Fredkin

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Abstract

A two-state, three-dimensional, deterministic, reversible cellular automaton is shown to be capable of approximately circular orbits, wavelike undulations, and particle-like configurations that decay in accordance with a half-life law.

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nlin.CGCellular Automata and Lattice Gases cs.DMDiscrete Mathematics

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    • > Personally, I am curious if there is any cellular automaton that has something like 3-dimensional rotational symmetry. Have you seen the Miller-Fredkin paper on circular motion of strings in cellular automata? https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.2060

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