From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-08-12T01:06:56+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Cellular Automata (#134)

On Aug 11, 2007, at 3:30 AM, Alex Young wrote:

> John Joyce wrote:
>> are these not fractals?
> Some are, most aren't.  The majority of rules (as far as I remember  
> - not written my solution yet :-) ) come up with fairly dull stable  
> patterns.

True, but some of the rules are very interesting.

Rule 30 passes many tests of random number generation, for example.   
Mathematica uses that very rule internally in it's algorithm for  
generating large random integers.

James Edward Gray II