Cellular automata simulator in Python.
I created this for two personal purposes. One is to get insight in cellular automata. The second is to have a reference model for hardware implementations.
You can install by cloning with git clone.
If you prefer not to use git, just download the source code directory as a zip file. After unzipping, make sure to rename the top-level directory to ca. This is because the code is implemented as a Python package, with ca as the top-level package name.
At the top level in the ca directory, there are a number of games you can play using the Python interpreter. The easiest is to do this from the directory that has the ca directory. For example:
python ca/fireworks.py
This should work without requiring changes to your $PYTHONPATH.
You can create your own games by subclassing the generations base class. See the existing games for examples.
Even though Tkinter is part of the standard Python library, you may have to install additional packages to make the gui work. This is because Tkinter is really an interface to Tcl/Tk, and these packages have to be installed also. On ubuntu, the following should work:
sudo apt-get install tcl-dev tk-dev python-tk
Jan Decaluwe 2012