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- From: rucker@sjsumcs.SJSU.EDU (Rudy Rucker)
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- Subject: Re: Looking for a CA Ref
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- Date: 5 Nov 92 19:38:34 GMT
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- The rule Louis Howell describes has been investigated by D. Griffeath
- among others and is colloquially known (at least by me) as the Eat rule.
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- Two references are:
- A.K.Dewdney, "Computer Recreations: A cellular universe of debris,
- droplets, defects and demons" Scientific American, Aug 1989, pp. 102-105
- and
- D. Griffeath, "Cyclic Random Competition," Notices of the AMS 35, pp. 1472-
- 1480.
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- A discussion of the rule can also be found in the manual for the PC
- software package JAMES GLEICK'S CHAOS: THE SOFTWARE (Autodesk 1992). This
- package includes a module which runs the Eat rule and allows the user to
- alter the parameters of the rule on the fly.
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