One-dimensional cellular automata
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One dimensional cellular automata
Assume an array of cells with an initial distribution of live and dead cells, and imaginary cells off the end of the array having fixed values.
Cells in the next generation of the array are calculated based on the value of the cell and its left and right nearest neighbours in the current generation. If, in the folowing table, a live cell is represented by 1 and a dead cell by 0 then to generate the value of the cell at a particular index in the array of cellular values you use the following table:
000 -> 0 # 001 -> 0 # 010 -> 0 # Dies without enough neighbours 011 -> 1 # Needs one neighbour to survive 100 -> 0 # 101 -> 1 # Two neighbours giving birth 110 -> 1 # Needs one neighbour to survive 111 -> 0 # Starved to death.
BASIC
<qbasic>DECLARE FUNCTION life$ (lastGen$) DECLARE FUNCTION getNeighbors! (group$) CLS start$ = "_###_##_#_#_#_#__#__" numGens = 10 FOR i = 0 TO numGens - 1 PRINT "Generation"; i; ": "; start$ start$ = life$(start$) NEXT i
FUNCTION getNeighbors (group$) ans = 0 IF (MID$(group$, 1, 1) = "#") THEN ans = ans + 1 IF (MID$(group$, 3, 1) = "#") THEN ans = ans + 1 getNeighbors = ans END FUNCTION
FUNCTION life$ (lastGen$) newGen$ = "" FOR i = 1 TO LEN(lastGen$) neighbors = 0 IF (i = 1) THEN 'left edge IF MID$(lastGen$, 2, 1) = "#" THEN neighbors = 1 ELSE neighbors = 0 END IF ELSEIF (i = LEN(lastGen$)) THEN 'right edge IF MID$(lastGen$, LEN(lastGen$) - 1, 1) = "#" THEN neighbors = 1 ELSE neighbors = 0 END IF ELSE 'middle neighbors = getNeighbors(MID$(lastGen$, i - 1, 3)) END IF
IF (neighbors = 0) THEN 'dies or stays dead with no neighbors newGen$ = newGen$ + "_" END IF IF (neighbors = 1) THEN 'stays with one neighbor newGen$ = newGen$ + MID$(lastGen$, i, 1) END IF IF (neighbors = 2) THEN 'flips with two neighbors IF MID$(lastGen$, i, 1) = "#" THEN newGen$ = newGen$ + "_" ELSE newGen$ = newGen$ + "#" END IF END IF NEXT i life$ = newGen$ END FUNCTION</qbasic> Output:
Generation 0 : _###_##_#_#_#_#__#__ Generation 1 : _#_#####_#_#_#______ Generation 2 : __##___##_#_#_______ Generation 3 : __##___###_#________ Generation 4 : __##___#_##_________ Generation 5 : __##____###_________ Generation 6 : __##____#_#_________ Generation 7 : __##_____#__________ Generation 8 : __##________________ Generation 9 : __##________________
J
life1d=: '_#'{~]@(([:3&(2=+/\)0,],0:)^:a:)
Example use:
life1d ? 20 # 2 _###_##_#_#_#_#__#__ _#_#####_#_#_#______ __##___##_#_#_______ __##___###_#________ __##___#_##_________ __##____###_________ __##____#_#_________ __##_____#__________ __##________________
Java
This example requires a starting generation of at least length two (which is what you need for anything interesting anyway). <java>public class Life{ public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception{ String start= "_###_##_#_#_#_#__#__"; int numGens = 10; for(int i= 0; i < numGens; i++){ System.out.println("Generation " + i + ": " + start); start= life(start); } }
public static String life(String lastGen){ String newGen= ""; for(int i= 0; i < lastGen.length(); i++){ int neighbors= 0; if (i == 0){//left edge neighbors= lastGen.charAt(1) == '#' ? 1 : 0; } else if (i == lastGen.length() - 1){//right edge neighbors= lastGen.charAt(lastGen.length() - 2) == '#' ? 1 : 0; } else{//middle neighbors= getNeighbors(lastGen.substring(i - 1, i + 2)); }
if (neighbors == 0){//dies or stays dead with no neighbors newGen+= "_"; } if (neighbors == 1){//stays with one neighbor newGen+= lastGen.charAt(i); } if (neighbors == 2){//flips with two neighbors newGen+= lastGen.charAt(i) == '#' ? "_" : "#"; } } return newGen; }
public static int getNeighbors(String group){ int ans= 0; if (group.charAt(0) == '#') ans++; if (group.charAt(2) == '#') ans++; return ans; } }</java> Output:
Generation 0: _###_##_#_#_#_#__#__ Generation 1: _#_#####_#_#_#______ Generation 2: __##___##_#_#_______ Generation 3: __##___###_#________ Generation 4: __##___#_##_________ Generation 5: __##____###_________ Generation 6: __##____#_#_________ Generation 7: __##_____#__________ Generation 8: __##________________ Generation 9: __##________________
Python
<python>import random
printdead, printlive = '_#' maxgenerations = 10 cellcount = 20 offendvalue = '0'
universe = .join(random.choice('01') for i in range(cellcount))
neighbours2newstate = {
'000': '0', '001': '0', '010': '0', '011': '1', '100': '0', '101': '1', '110': '1', '111': '0', }
for i in range(maxgenerations):
print "Generation %3i: %s" % ( i, universe.replace('0', printdead).replace('1', printlive) ) universe = offendvalue + universe + offendvalue universe = .join(neighbours2newstate[universe[i:i+3]] for i in range(cellcount))
</python> Sample output:
Generation 0: _###_##_#_#_#_#__#__ Generation 1: _#_#####_#_#_#______ Generation 2: __##___##_#_#_______ Generation 3: __##___###_#________ Generation 4: __##___#_##_________ Generation 5: __##____###_________ Generation 6: __##____#_#_________ Generation 7: __##_____#__________ Generation 8: __##________________ Generation 9: __##________________