Is there any known two-dimensional Conway's game of life variation where each cell can not be just on/off but able to hold more states, maybe 4 or 5?
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There are many: check out this website. http://golly.sourceforge.net/Help/Algorithms/RuleTable.html Often scientists will write their own variations to model certain real world scenarios. |
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Adding on to anon's comment, here's a cellular automaton called Wireworld. |
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I made a colour version of the Game of Life, but it's still fairly basic (ie. not that far removed from Conway's rules). (I should probably get around to writing up a little more about the rules there...) |
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I wrote a "spatial ecology" variant here in which different populations (with various birth and death rates) in-effect compete for "space". It's in Java, with source available (tho' was written a long time ago, with the 'original' windowing system). |
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I can recomend the software Golly, it's so far ahead of anything else and easy to use. Generations rules are similar to Lifelike rules such as Conways Life but have more states. If none of the probably millions of 4 or 5 state Generations rules are to you'r liking then you could make you'r own rule table giving you many more possibilities. |
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