Hey I am following up to an earlier note to the Community, asking for examples of Ruliology. This is another related note/update, and an invitation to contribute to a significant Community resource.
Within the Wolfram Community, the "Wolfram Atlas of Simple Programs" Atlas has a great outline and some well-structured CA-related content, but it's incomplete and also a bit dated at this point. However, we can use this as a basis for some Ruliology resources: pages for each of the 256 elementary Cellular Automata, entered on the Wolfram wiki, hosted by the Wolfram Institute.
Here is a "template notebook" that automatically generates a notebook for any given elementary CA rule (numbers 0-255). I welcome feedback about this document. IF THESE WERE USED AS THE BASIS OF wiki pages for each elementary Rule:
- What is missing from these summaries?
- Are there alternatives/additional types of visualizations you'd like to see?
- Would you like to see the discussion areas as separate sections aggregated below all visualizations, or just below each visualization?
- ANY OTHER FEEDBACK is so welcome.
That said, there is no need to spend a ton of time ruminating text editing, unless you are particularly and ardently inclined to do so at this stage. The reason that you can wait, is that, once these are posted on the wiki, you will have a chance to edit them voraciously and with wikiworld attribution.
This code is a "template" that I intended for you to download to your desktop, and then run. There is an "instructions" box that appears at the bottom. You can follow those instructions. You might also note that my coding isn't the most beautiful or slick, but look: i have been dying to have this and there was nothing like this out there and so i just went and made it. so there.
If you've read this far, and you are interested in Ruliology, there are more ways you can contribute to the conversation. Look up Ruliology in Community posts and check out those posts. Reply/leave comments. If you see other community posts that you think might be canonic examples of good Ruliology, "reply to" them to mention Ruliology so that we can find them, and use them to enhance our wiki and any other developing Community assets.
Many thanks!
-Elly
