Hardware-implemented cellular automata system and method

摘要

A system and method are provided for executing a cellular automata program in a hardware graphics pipeline. Initially, cell values are received in a hardware graphics pipeline. Next, the cell values are rendered to generate a condition value utilizing the hardware graphics pipeline. A cell value result for the subsequent generation is read from a rule map according to the condition value utilizing the hardware graphics pipeline. Still yet, additional cell values are stored based on the rule map value.