""" Return an image of 16 generations of one-dimensional cellular automata based on a given ruleset number https://mathworld.wolfram.com/ElementaryCellularAutomaton.html """ from typing import List from PIL import Image # Define the first generation of cells # fmt: off CELLS = [[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]] # fmt: on def format_ruleset(ruleset: int) -> List[int]: """ >>> format_ruleset(11100) [0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0] >>> format_ruleset(0) [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] >>> format_ruleset(11111111) [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1] """ return [int(c) for c in f"{ruleset:08}"[:8]] def new_generation(cells: List[List[int]], rule: List[int], time: int) -> List[int]: population = len(cells[0]) # 31 next_generation = [] for i in range(population): # Get the neighbors of each cell left_neighbor = 0 if i == 0 else cells[time][i - 1] # special: leftmost cell right_neighbor = 0 if i == population - 1 else cells[time][i + 1] # rightmost # Define a new cell and add it to the new generation situation = 7 - int(f"{left_neighbor}{cells[time][i]}{right_neighbor}", 2) next_generation.append(rule[situation]) return next_generation def generate_image(cells: List[List[int]]) -> Image.Image: """ Convert the cells into a greyscale PIL.Image.Image and return it to the caller. >>> from random import random >>> cells = [[random() for w in range(31)] for h in range(16)] >>> img = generate_image(cells) >>> isinstance(img, Image.Image) True >>> img.width, img.height (31, 16) """ # Create the output image img = Image.new("RGB", (len(cells[0]), len(cells))) pixels = img.load() # Generates image for w in range(img.width): for h in range(img.height): color = 255 - int(255 * cells[h][w]) pixels[w, h] = (color, color, color) return img if __name__ == "__main__": rule_num = bin(int(input("Rule:\n").strip()))[2:] rule = format_ruleset(int(rule_num)) for time in range(16): CELLS.append(new_generation(CELLS, rule, time)) img = generate_image(CELLS) # Uncomment to save the image # img.save(f"rule_{rule_num}.png") img.show()