MergeLife is a family of cellular automata. Each member of this family is represented by a hexadecimal encoding,
such
as
completely deterministic. Since developing the MergeLife update rule family, I've located over 1,000 MergeLife rules
that can be seen on GitHub.
MergeLife rules are discovered using a Genetic Algorithm. You can think of MergeLife as a utility to create entirely new Cellular Automata that are similar to Conway's Game of Life. Complete implementations of MergeLife in Java, Python, and JavaScript are provided on GitHub.
Some helpful links for MergeLife:
3rd Party Links:
as
E542-5F79-9341-F31E-6C6B-7F08-8773-7068 that represents a MergeLife update rule. The three patterns that you see above are three different
update rules. Other than a random starting grid, these update rules arecompletely deterministic. Since developing the MergeLife update rule family, I've located over 1,000 MergeLife rules
that can be seen on GitHub.
MergeLife rules are discovered using a Genetic Algorithm. You can think of MergeLife as a utility to create entirely new Cellular Automata that are similar to Conway's Game of Life. Complete implementations of MergeLife in Java, Python, and JavaScript are provided on GitHub.
Some helpful links for MergeLife:
- Rule Viewer
- HeatonCA Application
- Evolve New Rules Online
- MergeLife Objective Function Lab
- MergeLife CodePen
- Source Code and Binaries for MergeLife on GitHub
- MergeLife Experiments on GitHub
- My MergeLife Videos on YouTube
3rd Party Links:
- Visions of Chaos Visualizaztion program that supports MergeLife and a host of other Cellular Automata, Fractals, and other visual effects.
- Some MergeLife Rules found by Redditors
Heaton, J. March (2018). Evolving continuous cellular automata for aesthetic objectives. Genetic Programming Evolvable Machines. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10710-018-9336-1