We study a two-dimensional cellular automaton (CA), called Diffusion Rule (DR), which exhibits diffusion-like dynamics of propagating patterns. In computational experiments we discover a wide range of mobile and stationary localizations (gliders, oscillators, glider guns, puffer trains, etc), analyze spatio-temporal dynamics of collisions between localizations, and discuss possible applications in unconventional computing.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0908.0828,
title = {Localization dynamics in a binary two-dimensional cellular automaton: the Diffusion Rule},
author = {Genaro J. Martinez and Andrew Adamatzky and Harold V. McIntosh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.0828},
year = {2015}
}