Life-like cellular automaton

noun

A cellular automaton resembling Conway's Game of Life in terms of its ruleset (i.e. 2D, binary, outer totalistic, and using the Moore neighborhood).

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Meanings

nounLife-like cellular automaton (plural Life-like cellular automata or Life-like cellular automatons)

plural Life-like cellular automata · plural Life-like cellular automatons

  1. cellular automataA cellular automaton resembling Conway's Game of Life in terms of its ruleset (i.e. 2D, binary, outer totalistic, and using the Moore neighborhood).
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