Cellular Automata Art (oc by me)

Manta Rays, Rule 102

This shows the major steps of the algorithm prior to doing some heavy photoshopping.

The thumbnails...
1 base CA
2 feature detection
3 upper left corner shader
4 upper edge shader
5 triangle size shader
6 image I sampled color from

For more information see here...
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cellular-automata/

Glow Bugs In the Jungle, unknown rule

Nexus of Order and Chaos, Rule 30

Lightning Bolts, Rule 126

Lichtenberg Lines, Rule 122

These purple lines are made automatically by coloring all the cells that were spawned by one of the 8 combinations of 1s and 0s. In plane B&W these lightning bolt patterns are invisible. ?

Hanging Flower Garden, Rule 54

Colored automatically in Excel alone based on triangle size.

Undersea Life, Rule 110

Colored automatically in Excel based on triangle size