SRCA A free cellular automata application in Java
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A free cellular automata application in Java SRCA is a free and easy to use Cellular Automata application in Java which implements some complex CA rules that give rise to self reproducing and evolving patterns.The two single loops that comprise the initial starting pattern have replicated and evolved into several colonies of different loop types, each competing for space. Basically this is a simulation of a very simple artificial universe in which self-replicating patterns grow, produce children, and eventually die.These self-reproducing patterns can be thought of as artificial primitive life forms. Initially the universe contains one or more loops (depending upon universe size). Each loop is a wire around which signals propagate. These signals are instructions for growing a child wire loop. Once a child loop has been grown, the signals from the parent loop are copied into it and it is then detached from the parent. The child then becomes a parent by growing its own children. As signals propagate along the wires there is a small possibility of corruption, causing mutant children and thus enabling gradual evolution of the wire loops into different shapes and sizes (and sometimes other transient structures).

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