Coding Challenge 179: Elementary Cellular Automata

How is nature hidden in a pile of 0s and 1s? Let's find out by coding a visualization of the Wolfram Elementary Cellular Automaton! Code: 🚀 Watch this video ad-free on Nebula Web Editor Sketches: 🕹️ Wolfram Cellular Automata: 🕹️ Wolfram CA with color: 🕹️ Wolfram CA infinite scroll: 🕹️ 3D Grid: 🎥 Previous: 🎥 All: References: 🔗 A New Kind of Science: 🔗 Elementary Cellular Automaton: 🔗 Pre-Order Nature of Code: 🔗 The Nature of Code: Related Coding Challenges: 🚂 85 The Game of Life: 🚂 123 Chaos Game: 🚂 119 Binary to Decimal Conversion: Timestamps: 0:00 Hello! 2:09 What is an elementary cellular automata? 5:41 Explaining the rulesets 7:52 Calculating the next generation. 10:35 Visualizing the CA 14:25 Rule 90 16:45 Wolfram Classification. 19:19 Adding wrap-around 20:37 Suggestions for variations! 21:07 Goodbye! Editing by Mathieu Blanchette Animations by Jason Heglund Music from Epidemic Sound 🚂 Website: 👾 Share Your Creation! 🚩 Suggest Topics: 💡 GitHub: 💬 Discord: 💖 Membership: 🛒 Store: 🖋️ Twitter: 📸 Instagram: 🎥 Coding Challenges: 🎥 Intro to Programming: 🔗 : 🔗 Web Editor: 🔗 Processing: 📄 Code of Conduct: This description was auto-generated. If you see a problem, please open an issue: #natureofcode #wolfram #ca #cellularautomata #binarytodecimalconversion #sierpinskitriangle #p5js #javascript