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Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) have proven to be effective in a variety of fields, with numerous biologically inspired applications. One of the fields, in which NCAs perform well is the generation of textures, modelling global patterns from…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Mirela-Magdalena Catrina , Ioana Cristina Plajer , Alexandra Baicoianu

The objective is the design of a Cellular Automata rule that can form patterns with 'touching' loops. A loop is defined as a closed path of 1-cells in a 2D grid on a zero background and with a zero border. A path cell is connected with two…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2024-10-18 Rolf Hoffmann

This paper presents a novel framework using neural cellular automata (NCA) to regenerate and predict geographic information. The model extends the idea of using NCA to generate/regenerate a specific image by training the model with various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Mingxiang Chen , Qichang Chen , Lei Gao , Yilin Chen , Zhecheng Wang

Terrains are the main part of an electronic game. To reduce human effort on game development, procedural techniques are used to generate synthetic terrains. However rendering a terrain is not a trivial task. Their rendering techniques must…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Ricardo B. D. d'Oliveira , Antonio L. Apolinário

We present a new tierra-inspired artificial life system with local interactions and two-dimensional geometry, based on an update mechanism akin to that of 2D cellular automata. We find that the spatial geometry is conducive to the…

adap-org · Physics 2008-02-03 Chris Adami , C. Titus Brown

Motivated by the interaction between cells, the recently introduced concept of Neural Cellular Automata shows promising results in a variety of tasks. So far, this concept was mostly used to generate images for a single scenario. As each…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Maximilian Otte , Quentin Delfosse , Johannes Czech , Kristian Kersting

Automated generation and (user) authoring of the realistic virtual terrain is most sought for by the multimedia applications like VR models and gaming. The most common representation adopted for terrain is Digital Elevation Model (DEM).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Shanthika Naik , Aryamaan Jain , Avinash Sharma , KS Rajan

This paper presents a method for generating floor plans for structures in Minecraft (Mojang 2009). Given a 3D space, it will auto-generate a building to fill that space using a combination of constrained growth and cellular automata. The…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Michael Cerny Green , Christoph Salge , Julian Togelius

Two simple Cellular Automata, which mimic the Collatz-Ulam iterated map (3x+1 map), are introduced. These Cellular Automata allow to test efficiently the Collatz conjecture for very large numbers.

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Bruschi

Layered Cellular Automata (LCA) extends the concept of traditional cellular automata (CA) to model complex systems and phenomena. In LCA, each cell's next state is determined by the interaction of two layers of computation, allowing for…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2023-08-15 Abhishek Dalai

We investigate how increasing the dimension of the array can help to draw signals on cellular automata.We show the existence of a gap of constructible signals in any dimension. We exhibit two cellular automata in dimension 2 to show that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jean-Christophe Dubacq , Veronique Terrier

Cellular automata (CA) are discrete-time dynamical systems with local update rules on a lattice. Despite their elementary definition, CA support a wide spectrum of macroscopic phenomena central to statistical physics: equilibrium and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-31 Mihir Metkar , Neha Sah , Yichen Zhou

Cellular automata (CA) are a class of computational models that exhibit rich dynamics emerging from the local interaction of cells arranged in a regular lattice. In this work we focus on a generalised version of typical CA, called graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Daniele Grattarola , Lorenzo Livi , Cesare Alippi

Cellular Automata (CA) have long been foundational in simulating dynamical systems computationally. With recent innovations, this model class has been brought into the realm of deep learning by parameterizing the CA's update rule using an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Magnus Petersen

We present a 2-dimensional cellular automaton model for the simulation of pedestrian dynamics. The model is extremely efficient and allows simulations of large crowds faster than real time since it includes only nearest-neighbour…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andreas Schadschneider

Procedural terrain generation is the process of generating a digital representation of terrain using a computer program or procedure, with little to no human guidance. This paper proposes a procedural terrain generation algorithm based on a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Fong Yuan Lim , Yu Wei Tan , Anand Bhojan

We created two dimensional hexagonal cellular automata to obtain complexity. Considering the game of life rules, Wolfram's works about life-like structures and John von Neumann's self-replication, self-maintenance, self-reproduction…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2023-02-28 Vural Erdogan

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to generate images (or other artworks) by using neural cellular automatas (NCAs). Rather than training NCAs based on single images one by one, we combined the idea with variational autoencoders…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Mingxiang Chen , Zhecheng Wang

Generation of pseudo random sequences by cellular automata, as well as by hybrid cellular automata is surveyed. An application to the fast evaluation and FPGA implementation of some classes of boolean functions is sketched out.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-07-25 Bruno Martin , Patrick Solé

The cellular automata (CA) approach to traffic modeling is extended to allow for spatially homogeneous steady state solutions that cover a two dimensional region in the flow-density plane. Hence these models fulfill a basic postulate of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Boris S. Kerner , Sergey L. Klenov , Dietrich E. Wolf