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A measurement lab for elementary cellular automata — every complexity metric next to the pixels that produce it.

Started May 24, 2026 cellular.solves.ca
web visualization science

Cellular is a measurement lab I built for elementary cellular automata. It puts every complexity metric an ECA can give you — entropy, block entropy, correlation, single-cell sensitivity, Langton’s λ — right next to the pixels that produced it, across all 256 Wolfram rules. You see the number and the pattern at the same time, and can watch exactly where the chaotic/complex boundary breaks down.

I made it part interactive explainer — a guided tour through Wolfram’s four classes, layered from “start here” to graduate-level — and part research toy, with per-rule permalinks, GIF export, and side-by-side rule comparison. Another graduate of my solves.ca incubator.