Coding Challenge 179: Elementary Cellular Automata

How is nature hidden in a pile of 0s and 1s? Let's find out by coding a p5.js visualization of the Wolfram Elementary Cellular Automaton! Code: https://thecodingtrain.com/challenges... 🚀 Watch this video ad-free on Nebula https://nebula.tv/videos/codingtrain-... p5.js Web Editor Sketches: 🕹️ Wolfram Cellular Automata: https://editor.p5js.org/codingtrain/s... 🕹️ Wolfram CA with color: https://editor.p5js.org/codingtrain/s... 🕹️ Wolfram CA infinite scroll: https://editor.p5js.org/codingtrain/s... 🕹️ 3D Grid: https://editor.p5js.org/codingtrain/s... 🎥 Previous:    • Coding Challenge 178: Climate Spiral   🎥 All:    • Coding Challenges   References: 🔗 A New Kind of Science: https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/ 🔗 Elementary Cellular Automaton: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Element... 🔗 Pre-Order Nature of Code: https://nostarch.com/nature-code 🔗 The Nature of Code: https://natureofcode.com Related Coding Challenges: 🚂 85 The Game of Life:    • Coding Challenge 85: The Game of Life   🚂 123 Chaos Game:    • Coding Challenge #123: Chaos Game Part 1   🚂 119 Binary to Decimal Conversion:    • Coding Challenge #119: Binary to Decimal C...   Timestamps: 0:00 Hello! 2:09 What is an elementary cellular automata? 5:41 Explaining the rulesets 7:52 Calculating the next generation. 10:35 Visualizing the CA 14:25 Rule 90 16:45 Wolfram Classification. 19:19 Adding wrap-around 20:37 Suggestions for variations! 21:07 Goodbye! Editing by Mathieu Blanchette Animations by Jason Heglund Music from Epidemic Sound 🚂 Website: https://thecodingtrain.com/ 👾 Share Your Creation! https://thecodingtrain.com/guides/pas... 🚩 Suggest Topics: https://github.com/CodingTrain/Sugges... 💡 GitHub: https://github.com/CodingTrain 💬 Discord: https://thecodingtrain.com/discord 💖 Membership: http://youtube.com/thecodingtrain/join 🛒 Store: https://standard.tv/codingtrain 🖋️ Twitter:   / thecodingtrain   📸 Instagram:   / the.coding.train   🎥 Coding Challenges:    • Coding Challenges   🎥 Intro to Programming:    • Start learning here!   🔗 p5.js: https://p5js.org 🔗 p5.js Web Editor: https://editor.p5js.org/ 🔗 Processing: https://processing.org 📄 Code of Conduct: https://github.com/CodingTrain/Code-o... This description was auto-generated. If you see a problem, please open an issue: https://github.com/CodingTrain/thecod... #natureofcode #wolfram #ca #cellularautomata #binarytodecimalconversion #sierpinskitriangle #p5js #javascript