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tiny rule atlas

A free generative art piece — play it in your browser, no install. A reproducible interactive atlas of 4,096 elementary cellular automaton experiments.

by @Tradelord223 · Tradelord223/tiny-rule-atlas on GitHubLANG JavaScriptHOSTED ON TRADELORD223.GITHUB.IOUPDATED 6 Sep 2026

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How much can eight bits of law make?

A browsable, reproducible atlas of elementary cellular automata: **256 rules × 8 starting patterns × 2 boundary conditions = 4,096 experiments**. Each run contains the complete space-time diagram, measurements, a trajectory hash, and the result of a one-cell perturbation.

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Simple local rules can generate structure that is difficult to predict by looking at the rule alone.

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