#MCell 4.00 #GAME General binary #RULE C4,NN,S16a,Baabab11a #BOARD 120x120 #SPEED 20 #WRAP 1 #D This CA belongs to a large family of what we might call "Sierpinski rules", #D in virtue of the fact that they produce structures closely related to the #D so-called Sierpinski gasket, a well-known classical fractal. #D This particular rule propagates in the NW direction, but naturally #D each of its three rotations propagates in a different corner #D direction. The considerable transmusical interest of this and other #D Sierpinski rules has been the occasion for my dabbling with them. #D #D The humble "dot", the simplest of the simple seeds, a font #D of plenty under some rules and a complete bust under others. #D ORBIT(FractalBeads) - Our dot initiates a classic Sierpinski dance. #D (To see the Sierpinski gasket traced out by the "beads", just #D increase the rule's cellsize.) A simple transmusical rendering of #D the telocycle can be heard at http://jmge.net/camusic.htm. #D ORBIT(CellFarm) - The planting may be boring but don't miss the #D harvest :) #D #D John Elliott. #L A