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Why won't my CA work?
I'm trying to implement a simple cellular automata in processing and I've run into a strange problem. My code is here. I have a methods that change the state of two arrays, currentArray and nextArray, but for some reason I am having trouble changing the values in the array. I run the program and any changes I make don't seem to stick. Is this some sort of scope problem? I'd appreciate any help you can offer.
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where's case "110"?
Ah, one of those 100's was supposed to be 110. That doesn't fix it though.
the usual problem, you are updating the same array as you are checking...
in automataGuts()
do the update in a separate loop after you've worked out all of nextArray[].
what's the algorithm your are trying to implement?
your code has exactly 0 comments. you are making it very hard for us (and for future you).
Putting the currentArray=nextArray in a separate loop didn't fix it. After testing I'm pretty sure it's problem with updating the array's contents themselves but I can't figure out what. Also, I tried to commend it better.