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by tim_hutton 1092 days ago
Fredkin’s Self-Replicating Cellular Automata:

Sum the neighbors, modulo 2, and assign to the cell on the next timestep.

Astonishingly this allows patterns to replicate in multiple directions across the plane. https://cellpylib.org/fredkin.html

Works with any kind of lattice. Even works in 3D.