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Re:Wolfram Rule 30 Prizes by penagwin on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @05:58PM (#21131173)
What? Rule 30 is on a 2D plane.

EDIT: Oh I understand now! Each generation is 1D. Thanks for explaining! :D

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Re:Wolfram Rule 30 Prizes by kmote00 on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @06:16PM (#21131366)
Quote from previous link, in answer to a similar question comparing CAs (1d) to Conway's Life (2d):

"The pictures you're looking at, one of the axes is time. One row "becomes" the row below it. Each time-step iteration adds a row to the bottom, while the rows above it are immutable (because they are in the past)."

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Re:Wolfram Rule 30 Prizes by seaish on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @06:04PM (#21131235)
It's fundamentally 1D, with the vertical dimension used to illustrate how it evolves over time.
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Re:Wolfram Rule 30 Prizes by pubby on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @06:04PM (#21131238)
The universe is 1D. When you plot the universe over time you get a 2D image.
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