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A sampling of self-organisation in CA

John von Neumann (+Stanislaw Ulam) and John Horton Conway develop CA and the Game of Life with replication, construction, and complexity in mind (JvN 1966, Gardner 1970).

Richard Guy discovers the reflex glider in Life (~1970)

Stephan Rafler describes a glider in SmoothLife (2014)

Bert Chan develops an expansive taxonomy of solitons in Lenia (2019, web)

Growing neural cellular automata (Mordvintsev et al. 2020), Asymptotic Lenia (Kawaguchi et al. 2021), Glaberish (Davis et al.2022), and many more recent developments.