Simulating Flickering Fire with Noisy Cellular Automaton

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This is another Mathematica program I wrote published by the Wolfram Demonstrations Project. The program animates flickering fire with a simple mathematical algorithm using Wolfram rule-99 cellular automaton. The algorithm is based on calculation of eigenvalues of a matrix representing the cellular automaton evolution. To play with this program and to read more detailed explanation click on the picture. Click on the YouTube icon to view a short video of the demonstration.

Simulating Flickering Fire with Noisy Cellular Automaton