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Have a look at this:
http://psoup.math.wisc.edu/mcell/index.html
Your students may enjoy it.
Best,
D.
"Dave Matthews" <ns### [at] nospam edu> wrote in message
news:41921e37@news.povray.org...
> I was working with a couple of students on cellular automata, and
> thought I'd share the file I used to create the 1-dimensional
> (elementary) version (see PTSF for my code and see
> http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ElementaryCellularAutomaton.html for some
> explanation.
>
> The images are nothing special, and they don't compress very well (by
> their very nature), but I included 2 anyway. It is somewhat instructive
> to color the cells according to the state of their neighbors. This
> allows you to anticipate the next generation, and see the rule better.
> I've use the convention:
> rgb <state_of_left_neighbor, state_of_cell, state_of_right_neighbor>
> so that any cells with green in them (green, yellow, blue-green, white)
> are "alive."
>
> Dave Matthews
>
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