From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-08-13T22:48:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Cellular Automata (#134)

On Aug 13, 2007, at 8:41 AM, Drew Olson wrote:

> James Gray wrote:
>> On Aug 13, 2007, at 8:17 AM, Drew Olson wrote:
>>
>>> Note: I saw no reason to make the output right
>>> justified, so mine is left justified. Not sure if this matters  
>>> much...
>>
>> I don't think the rules should be justified in either direction.  The
>> pattern dictates how they expand.
>>
>> Your code draws some rules differently, for example:
>
> James -
>
> Thanks for the follow up. I may be totally missing something, but I'm
> confused where the left padding comes from in the first generation in
> your solution.

The first row isn't padded.  It's that the later rows push it over.   
I started with:

X

Then Rule 2 fills the cell down and to the left:

  X
X

And again:

   X
  X
X

Make sense now?

James Edward Gray II