Physics 329: Cellular Automata

• General References
  • Statistical Mechanics of Cellular Automata, Stephen Wolfram, Rev. Mod. Phys, 55, 601-644 (1983)
  • Cellular Automata and Complexity, Stephen Wolfram, (collected papers), Addison-Wesley (1994)
• Source code covered in class can be found on the phy329 account on einstein in ~phy329/ca/ex1
• Lectures 1 and 2 (Nov 1)
  • ca1dr1.f: Fortran program for simulation of two-state, 1d cellular automata (CA) with range-1 update rule. Sample output on SGIs.
  • ca1dr2t.f: Fortran program for simulation of two-state, 1d cellular automata (CA) with range-2 totalistic update rule. Sample output on SGIs. Higher resolution image of simulation using Rule 12: graphics via SGI gl library and SGI specific version casgi.f. Fortran-callable Interface to GL routines plot.c which also illustrates general technique for calling C routines from Fortran.
• Supplementary Material
  • Cellular Automata and Self-organized Criticality, a recent preprint by Michael Creutz with many color figures.
  • An Early Sampler of CAM-8 Applications, a brochure from the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science which has a research group building special-purpose CA machines.