Selected Cellular Automata Links

Game of Life

• Paul Callahan's Life page
• Spaceships in Conway's game of Life, David Bell
• Life spaceship collection, Stephen Silver
• Corderman spaceships and puffers, Dean Hickerson
• Mark Niemiec's catalog of small objects and their syntheses from gliders.
• Moving objects catalogued by period and number of live cells, Heinrich Koenig
• Still life theory, Matthew Cook (see also his presentation at the MSRI combinatorial game theory research workshop).
• Game of Life Status Page, Jason Summers
• Martin Gardner's Scientific American column
• Metacatacryst. Tomas Rokicki uses a hashlife algorithm to simulate a quadratic-growth pattern to ridiculous numbers of generations.
• Open Directory: Conway's Game of Life.
• LogiCell implementation of Boolean logic in Conway's Life.

Spaceships in other cellular automata

• Gliders in 4-neighbor semitotalistic 2D cellular automata
• Finite nature: solitons
• Rotations IV
• Rich Holmes' survey of small spaceships in various CA rules
• Slow alien spaceships, Dean Hickerson
• Patterns for other Life-like rules, Jason Summers
• Dave Boll's investigations of variant life rules
• Kellie Evans' Ph.D. thesis on variant life rules.
• Just Friends non-totalistic rule with many interesting patterns.
• Rule 3/2ab3, another non-totalistic rule with small gliders.
• The Logic Rule, yet another non-totalistic rule with small photons and a nice replicator-based photon gun, allowing logic circuits to be built from glider streams.
• Triangular cellular automata, Carter Bays. His rules 2,4/4,6 and 2,4,6/4,6, at least, can generate gliders from random initial conditions.
• Strange Universe, gliders in a 12-neighbor triangular CA.
• Hexagonal CA gallery, showing several hexagonal rules with gliders.
• Hexatron. More hexagonal rules with gliders.
• Gliders in rule 110, a one-dimensional CA recently proven Turing-complete by Matthew Cook.
• Solitons and particles in cellular automata: a bibliography
• Some 3d and 4d Game of Life objects

General references

• David Griffeath's primordial soup kitchen
• Frequently asked questions about cellular automata
• Xtoys Gallery
• Classifying cellular automata automatically, Andrew Wuensche.
• Cellular automaton file formats
• Introduction to cellular automata
• 3d cellular automata links
• Cellular Automata - Optimisation. Interesting discussion of CA programming techniques.