Yes.

Check out "A new kind of science" by Stephen Wolfram.

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"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message 
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>I wonder if you could create a fractal CA?
>
> Imagine a CA, where each cell is actually 9 subcells. You apply the rules 
> to the subcells to make them live and dead. Then after each subcell 
> generation, you interpret those 9 cells to decide whether the supercell is 
> alive or dead (like, 5+ subcells alive means the supercell is alive or 
> some such), and it turns out the supercells are following the same rules 
> as the subcells.
>
> Just a curiousity triggered by earlier quantum-is-fractal link, Wolfram's 
> New Science ideas, Permutation City, and 
>
http://alcor.concordia.ca/~vpetkov/Unreasonable%20Effectiveness%20of%20Mathematics.pdf
>
> I wonder if there's a non-utterly-brute-force way of finding such a 
> patter.
>
> (First post was wrong group. :-)
> -- 
>   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
>   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!
>

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