About Cellular Automata Explorer

This interactive app provides a UI for exploring cellular automata (CA) by exposing granular controls for most of the important parameters including survival/birth counts, neighborhood type, range, and more.

Currently this app only supports so-called "Life-like" rules, including Larger than Life and Generations. Square cells in a regular grid with discrete, deterministic states

Keyboard

Space - pause/play
r - restart
u - show/hide the UI
h - show this "about" panel

Mouse

Click and drag to set all cells within the brush radius to 0.
Use the mouse wheel to make the brush size bigger or smaller.

Accessibility

All UI controls can be reached and operated by keyboard.
To paint on the canvas, first set focus onto the canvas, then use the following keys to interact with it:
- Hold down Space to touch the brush to the canvas. Release to lift it.
- Use your arrow keys to move the brush around.
- Hold down Shift while moving to go faster. Release it to return to normal speed.

Credits

Mirek Wojtowicz for the Cellular Automata rules lexicon, which all of the rule Presets come from.