In Popular Culture
See also: Category:Cellular automata in popular culture- One-dimensional cellular automata were mentioned in the Season 2 episode of NUMB3RS "Bettor or Worse".
- The Hacker Emblem, a symbol for hacker culture proposed by Eric S. Raymond, depicts a glider from Conway's Game of Life.
- The Autoverse, an artificial life simulator in the novel Permutation City, is a cellular automaton.
- Cellular automata are discussed in the novel Bloom.
- Cellular automata are central to Robert J. Sawyer's trilogy WWW in an attempt to explain how Webmind spontaneously attained consciousness.
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