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Re:Understanding Multiple Neighbourhood Cellular Automata by ssivark on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @01:53PM (#27293822)
Very interesting observations! How did you stumble on this? :-)

IIUC (based on one of your blog comments), you typically need one “immediate” neighborhood and one “ring-like” neighborhood further away. The latter seems like it might likely require non-locality in a fundamental sense (which typically leads to both philosophical and practical problems, like how do you keep the non-locality in check to maintain approximate locality). Any thoughts on that?

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Re:Understanding Multiple Neighbourhood Cellular Automata by Slackermanz on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @09:29PM (#27298328)
Those NH configurations were simply examples, I've used a wide variety of randomly generated NHs and they all have their own quirks and capabilities.

Could you clarify what you mean by non-locality? All NHs are a circle, or ring(s) of pixels around the 'origin' pixel [0, 0]

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