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Langton's ant
Two-dimensional Turing machine with emergent behavior / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Langton's ant is a two-dimensional Turing machine with a very simple set of rules but complex emergent behavior. It was invented by Chris Langton in 1986 and runs on a square lattice of black and white cells.[1] The idea has been generalized in several different ways, such as turmites which add more colors and more states.
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