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The Global Dynamics of Cellular Automata: An Atlas of Basin of Attraction Fields of One-Dimensional Cellular Automata (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity Reference Volumes)

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Cellular automata are a fascinating field, and this book summarises some research done on them in the early 90s. The dynamics are described. There are different types of behaviour depending on the given choices of CA. Typically, a specific CA has some parameters, which are then tweaked to scrutinise the CA.

There are many black and white and colour images. The latter are sometimes quite pretty. But even the black and white images often show interesting structures.

The code referred to by the book ran on computers that are now obsolete. So too is the floppy [who uses these anymore?] that accompanies the book. But a diligent reader should be able to reproduce and recompile the code for newer machines.