
infrastructure for their beliefs—swarms within swarms. So far, uses of
Swarm have been focused on providing simulations of higher-level phe-
nomena that emerge from lower-level specification of rules, much as
gliders and other CA particles emerge from the low-level rule sets speci-
fied in a cellular automaton.
One-dimensional cellular automata are the most commonly studied
type. Where the two-dimensional Game of Life was pictured as a torus,
the one-dimensional CA is simply a ring, with the first and last cells of a
row joined. One row of binary cells iterates down the screen. In the
Game of Life cells are defined on a plane rather than a line, and the ...