A playground to explore the world of one-dimensional cellular automata, where you determine the evolution of a line of colored cells. At each step, rules determine how these cells change their color based on their current state and the color of their immediate left and right neighbors. By changing the outcome of these individual rules you can create patterns of great complexity and beauty.

Cellular Automata are one of the most popular models in artificial life to understand the emergent properties of complex self-evolving systems. Try out all possible rule combinations starting from either a random or fixed state! You can explore the results at different levels of detail by zooming and panning around the simulation display.