Brian's Brain Cellular Automaton

Rules: There are three cell types. Dead (white), alive (black) and dying (gray). A alive cell always goes into dying and a dying cell always dies in the next iteration. A dead cell comes alive in the next iteration if the number of alive cells in the moore neighborhood are in the birth numbers (above).

Settings

Clicking on the simulation turns cells on and off.

Controls:

• Start: Begins the simulation, calculating and displaying the next population every update rate seconds
• Step: Calculates and displays the next population
• Clear: Stops the simulation and clears the population
• Randomize: Randomly sets 50% of the cells alive and the other 50% dead
• Update Rate: How many milliseconds each frame is displayed. Lower = Faster simulation, but more CPU intensive.

Simulation Settings:

Can be edited while the simulation is running.

• Spawn B: Specifies how many cells around a dead cell have to be alive for the cell to come alive.
• Wrapping: Makes the world wrap around, like in snake. With wrapping turned off the outside world acts as dead cells.

Display Settings:

Will restart the simulation.

• Cell Size: Controls the height and width of the cells. Low values are very CPU intensive.