HeatonCA
Jeffrey Heaton Entertainment iPhoneiPadiPod touchMac
HeatonCA is a free Entertainment app for iPhone and iPad by Jeffrey Heaton. Requires iOS 15.0. Updated September 10, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 85 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 10
- 2026 · v1.0
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About HeatonCA
Evolve colorful cellular automata rulesets and view existing ones. A gallery of known cellular automata is built into this application, additionally you can evolve your own new rules. This application implements the algorithm described in the paper: Evolving continuous cellular automata for aesthetic objectives in Genetic Programming Evolvable Machines, Heaton, J. March (2018). You can try out three different rulesets provided by this program. For more details of the algorithm refer to the cited paper.
App privacy
The developer, Jeffrey Heaton, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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