Introduction to the Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems

11.1. DEFINITION OF CELLULAR AUTOMATA 187NeighborhoodConfigulationat time tConfigulationat time t+1LTC RBState set{ , }State-transition functionC T R B L C T R B L C T R B L C T R B LFigure 11.1: Schematic illustration of how cellular automata work.Figure 11.2: Examples of neighborhoods often used for two-dimensional CA. Left: vonNeumann neighborhood. Right: Moore neighborhood.