Investigations of game of life cellular automata rules on penrose tilings: Lifetime, ash, and oscillator statistics

Journal of Cellular Automata

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 207-225

  Owens, Nick ^a   Stepney, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aperiodic tiling; Cellular automata; Game of life; Penrose tilings

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952555014     PISSN: 15575969     EISSN: 15575977     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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