r/cellular_automata↗
Cellular Automata
This is a subreddit about cellular automata (singular: cellular automaton). For example, Rule 110, Conway's Game of Life, and the Biham-Middleton-Levine traffic model.
35k subscribers74 posts / mo in Sep 2026 (incl. ~1% by known bots)45 authors / mosince 2012
r/cellular_automata has 35k members (+38% over the last 12 months). It gets about 74 posts a month from 45 people. Top topics: FractalArt, Patterns and Tilesets.
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- FractalArt0.4%
- Patterns0.3%
- Tilesets0.2%
- Ant Colonies & Species0.2%
- LLMs and AGI Progress0.2%
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- Conway's Game of Life
- itch
- Shadertoy
- arXiv.org e-Print archive
- Bluesky Social
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