[airesearcher]

Good feedback -

These rules use very different principles than traditional cell-based rules - for example neighbor degree, number of connections, and eligibility criteria based on connectivity. So the cells are not becoming alive or dead based on the states of their neighbors, but rather on the topology of their neighborhoods.

The details are beyond the scope of a short write up, but are easy to explore in the rule-editor in the GUI of the code.

And preamble pruned of the historical anecdote behind this.

[michelpp]

An interesting approach to characterize graph topology, both locally and globally is to use a graphlet transform, there some interesting research happening around these types of topology signals, here's one that takes a very algebraic approach

https://github.com/fcdimitr/fglt