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Technical articles by one of the leading CA researchers, concerning both 1D and 2D Cellular Automata.
http://www.wolfram.com/s.wolfram/articles/indices/ca.html

Colorful images and Java movies of Cellular Automata, with recipes to explain their genesis. Also some tasty Real Recipes. By David Griffeath.
http://psoup.math.wisc.edu/kitchen.html

IFIP WG Cellular Automata and Machines home page. Resources on CA.
http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/ca/

Java-based active essay on complexity concepts by Mitchel Resnick and Brian Silverman.
http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/gro...projects/emergence/contents.html

An extendable DOS/Windows application for exploring cellular automata, accompanied by a thorough user guide; by Rudy Rucker and John Walker.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cellab/

An application for simulating complex systems; by André Homeyer. Requires Java.
http://www.cafun.de

Many free CA, ALife, and Chaos programs for Macs.
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~hq8y-ishm/

A Java demonstration of cellular automata on a hexagonal grid.
http://www.hexatron.com/hexca/index.html

A collection of Jeffrey Ventrella's AL programs, including a very original "Breeding gliders with CA" simulator. Papers on Artificial Life.
http://www.ventrella.com/Alife/alife.html

Development and research of evolving cellular automata with genetic algorithms, computational mechanics, population dynamics and coevolution.
http://www.santafe.edu/~evca/

A big (200+) collection of resources for those interested in studying Artificial Life and Cellular Automata.
http://surf.de.uu.net/zooland/

Color cellular automata for the World Wide Web, by George Maydwell.
http://www.collidoscope.com/modernca

2D general-purpose cellular automata simulators for Unix or Java at Iowa State University.
http://www.complex.iastate.edu

1D and 2D Cellular Automata viewer, explorer and editor by Mirek Wojtowicz. Huge libraries of CA rules and patterns, gallery of CA rules, news, links. Free 32-bit Windows MCell software.
http://www.mirekw.com/

David J. Eck's Java-illustrated introduction to 1-dimensional cellular automata.
http://math.hws.edu/xJava/CA/

Music samples generated using some popular cellular automata rules; by John Elliott.
http://jmge.net/camusic.htm

"New tools for CA classification" by Paola Flocchini and Frédéric Geurts
http://www.csu.edu.au/ci/vol2/pfgfattr2/pfgfattr2.html

Michael D. Bayne's CA survey. Is a good description of many topics from cellular automata to artificial life
http://www.go2net.com/internet/deep/1997/01/15/body.html

Structurally Dissolvable Self-Reproducing Loop & Evoloop, by Hiroki Sayama.
http://necsi.org/postdocs/sayama/sdsr/

(game of life, brian's brain...) available in PDF, illustrated with a program (CAV) and an applet which show the capability of a conway CA to manage boolean functions as part of a Turing machine(LogiCell).
http://www.rennard.org/alife/english/acgb.html

Theoretical introduction to finite automata, cellular automata, iterons and solitons, by Pawel Siwak.
http://staff.sk-kari.put.poznan.pl/siwak/

Kellie Michele Evans' PhD thesis.
http://www.csun.edu/~kme52026/thesis.html

A general 2D cellular automaton explorer implemented as a Java 1.1 applet. By John Elliott.
http://jmge.net/java/csprings/

Beta version of the Cellular Automata Browser, a combination of Java and Java-Script that allows to browse through a large number of one-dimensional CA-rules, by Martin Schaller.
http://members.surfeu.at/tim2/cabrowser/cabrowser.html

A Java applet demonstrating cellular automata models of cardiac dynamics; by Gil Bub.
http://www.cnd.mcgill.ca/bios/bub/CAs.html

A cellular automata tutorial that covers the structure, behaviour and some applications of CA and offers a philosophical background as well; by Alexander Schatten.
http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~aschatt/info/ca/ca.html

A Java applet running one-dimensional cellular automata; by Martin Schaller.
http://members.surfeu.at/tim2/caos/caos.html

Home Page of SARCASim (Super Animation-Reduction CA Simulator) and ARCAL language, by George Maydwell.
http://www.collidoscope.com/ca/

A site devoted to the Edward Fredkin's idea that our entire Universe can be represented as a computer program. FAQ, relevant articles, cellular automata pictures, movies, VRML models and programs.
http://digitalphysics.org

General Cellular Automata Java applet running over 200 rules from 12 CA families, equipped with a big library of patterns. By Mirek Wojtowicz.
http://www.mirekw.com/ca/mjcell/mjcell.html

A set of Cellular Automata simulators written for XWindows. By Mike Creutz.
http://quark.phy.bnl.gov/www/xtoys/xtoys.html

An implementation of cellular automata for the GIS software ArcView from ESRI.
http://srf.tuwien.ac.at/lva/students/ca/

Reversible Cellular Automata, neighbourhoods, billiard ball machines, Java applets. By Tim Tyler.
http://cell-auto.com/

Edward Fredkin's papers exploring the idea of a world where all quantities in nature are finite and discrete, with a chapter on cellular automata.
http://digitalphilosophy.org/

Home page of a versatile Windows software by Jason Rampe. The program covers Cellular Automata, Chaos, and Fractals.
http://www.softology.com.au/voc.htm

Contains papers and other documents by Abdiel Caceres Gonzalez related with computability in normal evolutions of cellular automata, in particular with evolution rule 110, some studies about entropy and tiling with software for mac os X .
http://computacion.cs.cinvestav.mx/~acaceres

A repository with cellular automata related papers, lectures and software concentrating on Rule 110 by Harold V. McIntosh.
http://delta.cs.cinvestav.mx/~mcintosh/

A Java Applet for simulating all kind of cellular automata, including Conway's Game Of Life or snowflake generation rules. By Frank Buß.
http://www.frank-buss.de/automaton/index.html

Links to sites containing applets for various CA: Conway's game of life, Bays' 3-D life, triangular CA and life objects, and some new games of life that have been discovered in the hexagonal and pentagonal tessellations.
http://www.cse.sc.edu/~bays/CAhomePage

Cellular Automata software that uses probability theory with Conway's game of life rules to produce new and beautiful animations using DirectX 8.0.
http://www.netplay.com.au/

A Windows application that can simulate and analyze various one-dimensional and two-dimensional cellular automata, part of the Cellular Automata and Electric Power project lead by Dr. Rudy Rucker.
http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/faculty/rucker/capow/

A tool for simulating uniform or non-uniform cellular automata for a variety of neighborhood models, implemented in Scheme (a dialect of Lisp) using PLT's Dr.Scheme.
http://student.vub.ac.be/~nkaraogl/drcell/drcell.htm

Windows software implementing five cellular automata: q-state Life, Belouzov-Zhabotinsky Reaction, Togetherness, Viral Replication and Diffusion-Limited Aggregation; by Hermetic Systems.
http://www.hermetic.ch/pca/pca.htm

An open source implementation of Langton's ant in Q-Basic. Supports older monitors; by Robin Upton.
http://www.robinupton.com/software/

A hexagonal version of John Conway's game of life, for Windows and Macintosh.
http://members.optusnet.com.au/t...oms/download/index.html#HexCells

An algorithmic music entity that creates evolving musical textures based upon initial parameters determined by its human composer; by Gary Bourgeois.
http://www.zenstrings.com/

An interactive cellular automata generator with C++ source code available for downloading; by Kevin McDermott.
http://kidojo.com/~yebb/cellauto/

Tools for researching discrete dynamical networks - from cellular automata to random boolean networks; by Andrew Wuensche.
http://www.ddlab.com/

A compiler for the Cellang cellular automata programming language, along with the corresponding documentation, viewer, and various tools; by J Dana Eckart.
http://staff.vbi.vt.edu/dana/ca/cellular.shtml

A generic and extensible cellular automaton simulation engine written in Python.
http://www.alcyone.com/software/cage/

Christopher Osborn's Java applet exploring self-reproducing patterns.
http://www.softrise.co.uk/srl/caworld.shtml

Minimal discrete models. Cellular automata-like animations without grids or synchronization; by Erik Rauch.
http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~rauch/dapm/

Fine theoretical and practical introduction to Cellular Automata, ALife, and Complex Adaptive Systems.
http://lslwww.epfl.ch/~moshes/