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A mobile automaton in which the position of the active cell moves in a seemingly random way. Each column above shows 400 steps; the compressed form corresponds to 50,000 steps. It took searching through a few million mobile automata to find one with behavior as complex as what we see here.

A mobile automaton in which the position of the active cell moves in a seemingly random way. Each column above shows 400 steps; the compressed form corresponds to 50,000 steps. It took searching through a few million mobile automata to find one with behavior as complex as what we see here.


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From Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Science [citation]