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This paper discuss a class of 2-dimensional asynchronous cellular automata with conservation of mass, for the formation of patterns in groups. The previous study [14] reported a methodology of searching, automatically, for pattern-forming cellular automata using a genetic algorithm; this approach successfully found a few types of pattern-forming rules. The current study is a series of statistical analyses of one of the classes found by the above methodology, with the hope of understanding the mechanisms of the pattern formation. These analyses lead to some basic logic necessary to the pattern formation, but not to enough information to elucidate the whole mechanism of the pattern formation. This result suggests that the existence of unidentified cooperative operations between the different transitions of the cellular automaton rule to carry out the pattern formation.
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Suzudo, T. (2004). Searching for Pattern-Forming Asynchronous Cellular Automata – An Evolutionary Approach. In: Sloot, P.M.A., Chopard, B., Hoekstra, A.G. (eds) Cellular Automata. ACRI 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3305. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30479-1_16
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