A novel quantification of cellular automata
We investigate automata proposed by Wolfram as well as a binary one-dimensional automaton with physical meaning for the states of rest between earthquakes. The dynamics can not only be described qualitatively by classes (1 through 4), but are quantified by the measure HIP. This measure is the number of asymptotic periods larger than 1, resulting from all possible initial configurations of a short version of the cellular automaton. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.
cellular automata wolfram stick-slip