Update


New version is now available ! Here are the issues that were fixed :

- There is a timer encoded in each cell to ensure it is destroyed, so space on the grid can be freed for younger cells. It was originally only 4 digits long, so the software would crash upon hitting 10000 time steps. This has been corrected to include 8 digits.

- Some mouse-related incidents were present in the previous version and have been fixed.

- The string of characters encoded in each cell was too long. At first, each unique configuration of the neighbors of a given cell pointed at a position in the string, based on the states of the neighbors multiplied by the state of the cell. This is a remnant of previous versions of the cellular automaton, in which the state of the cell that was scanning its neighbors was actually relevant. However, in the current version, all cells that are to scan their neighborhood have the same state. This allows the position in the string to depend only on the states of the neighbors and thus, the length of the string itself has been shortened to free up some memory.
 

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