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Re:A Lizard with Scales That Behave Like a Cellular Automaton by mizzao on Thursday April 13, 2017 @12:05PM (#14108179)
Most cellular automata simulators are on a square grid, but that lizard's scales are on a hexagonal one. I wonder if that arrangement makes it easier to produce recurrent local patterns.

Does anyone know if there is a cellular automata simulator on a hexagonal grid?

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Re:A Lizard with Scales That Behave Like a Cellular Automaton by allenz on Friday April 14, 2017 @02:26AM (#14112981)
You can simulate a hexagonal lattice on a square grid: https://geometricolor.wordpress.com/2013/01/11/hexagonal-cel...

Example in Golly, the most popular CA simulator: https://github.com/gollygang/ruletablerepository/wiki/TheRul...

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