wolfram-rules

This script creates a PNG-image of first generations of Wolfram's elementary cellular automaton from a random bit string using integer input as its rule.

Elementary cellular automaton page on Wikipedia

Made by p07010k in September 2020.

Requirements

Python Imaging Library is needed. Install from pip:

pip install Pillow

Usage

Run the wolfram-rules.py script. Input an integer from 0 to 255. If left blank, 30 is entered as the default.

$ wolfram-rules.py
84
The picture is saved as 'rule_84_20210407231438.png'

Examples of output images

Rule 30:

Rule 109:

Further plans

! There is a bug which makes several left bits behave incorrectly. I am going to fix this. Also, it would be nice to add some functionality as follows:

• let user to configure canvas size, colors and scaling coefficient;
• input their own initial string, not only random.