User:H. H. P. M. P. Cole/Book on OCA

Confirmed chapters

General chapters:

• Intro to OCA terminology
• Rulegolfing
• Software for rulegolfing and exploring rules
• Replicators, Wolfram emulation and Margolus media (this is important enough that it probably deserves a section on its own)

H. H. P. M. P. Cole

• LtL/HROT in general
• Hash
• Coexistence
• Factorio

HerscheltheHerschel

• Life-like CA
• Methuselae/explosive rules
• Infinite growth
• Factorio

Para

• Engineering-friendly rules

Haycat2009

• Dominoplex
• Harvest Moon
• Coexistence
• Determination
• Factorio
• Grounded Life

Proposed order and chapters

Feel free to change the order and content of each chapter!

Part I: General OCA terminology

• Intro to OCA terminology (OTCA, Hensel)
• Rulegolfing
• Software for rulegolfing and exploring rules
• Replicators, Wolfram emulation and Margolus media
• Methuselae and infinite growth

Part II: Life-Like Rules

• HighLife
• Pedestrian Life
• Grounded Life
• Day and Night

Part III: INT Rules

• Leap-Life
• tlife
• Just Friends
• Glimmering Garden
• Logic Rule
• Determination
• Dominoplex
• Harvest Moon
• Other engineering-friendly Rules (Snowflakes, Einstein)

Part IV: Multistate Rules

• Brian's Brain and Star Wars
• Other multistate rules (incl. SoManyShips2, SMOSMOSMOS)

Part V: Different Neighbourhoods

• HexLife (B2/S34)
• Hexogen
• Bosco
• Factorio
• Hash
• Coexistence