I implemented some principles of elementary cellular automation in Java.

The program can generate a visualization of the plan. Example for the Rule 30 :

Here is the rule 90, generating a Sierpinski triangle :

So far I've implemented 4 rules ( see the code under src/main/java/be/max/rules) :

• Rule 30
• Rule 90
• Rule 110
• Rule 250

There are in total 256 rules possibles.

A list from Stanford University showing all 256 possibles rules

Things to do to go further with this project :

• Create an interface for rules

• Add others rules

• Add it as a web service so a front-end can give a nice in-browser rendering:

  • The web service is simply a controller that receives the parameter for the cellular automata (number of cells per row, number of rows/iterations, and the rule). It will return a JSON response containing the representation of the plan generated.

• Make the front-end to render the plan with some JavaScript (frameworks to consider : D3.js, processing, P5.js, ...)