Cellular Automata
Nov 2 · 6 min read
An Abridged History
No, not that kind of automaton. Let’s back up.
Origins
Cellular automata (CA) are mathematical models containing a grid of cells, usually (but not limited to) two dimensions. The concept was discovered by John von Neumann while studying self-replicating machines at the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico in the 1940s.
