Description

This repository contains the contribution to a challenge writing a linear cellular automaton.

Usage

The programm takes input from stdin as described in: Challenge

You can test the programm with the bash script supplied:

./test_automaton

You can run your own cases with:

input="A 11 10\n
init_start 6 init_end"

echo $input | python3 automaton.py

Featues

Notable features of this solution:

• Implementation of the automaton itself with only few characters of code (gen[1:-1] = ac[4*np.roll(gen,1)+2*gen+np.roll(gen,-1)][1:-1])
• Few lines of code in summary
• Using only one for-loop as loops are normally inefficient in python