# HeatonCA — Full Color Cellular Automata

> Full Color Cellular Automata (iPhone/iPad app by Jeffrey Heaton.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/heatonca/id6469583429 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Jeffrey Heaton](https://appshunter.io/developer/1712242130)
- Category: Entertainment, Education
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 85 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2023-11-07
- Data updated: 2026-09-11
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/heatonca/id6469583429/reviews.md

## What is HeatonCA?

Evolve colorful cellular automata rulesets and view existing ones. A gallery of known cellular automata is built into this application, additionally you can evolve your own new rules.

This application implements the algorithm described in the paper: Evolving continuous cellular automata for aesthetic objectives in Genetic Programming Evolvable Machines, Heaton, J. March (2018). You can try out three different rulesets provided by this program. For more details of the algorithm refer to the cited paper.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0 — 2026-09-10

No release notes.

## More apps by Jeffrey Heaton

- [Dynaface](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dynaface/id6475224118)

All apps by Jeffrey Heaton: https://appshunter.io/developer/1712242130

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