Seed

Survey

Question

Screenshot
(automatic naming)

SAC

Clusters
by connectivity

Con. threshold Con. neighborhood

Clusters
by kernels

Kernel size (1-8) Min age Note: the connectivity threshold and neighborhood type settings also affect the kernel growing method.

Controls
Context
Overview
Help

Neighborhood info

Automaton info Update statistics

Generation: 0

Run until		generation
Draw interval		generations (or -1 to only update at the end)

Information

Cell info (Click to select for lottery and/or payload inspection) Update with reference cell

Automaton settings

Core processing
Neighborhood definition
Seed	Relocate stacked cells
Seed augmentation	Enable seed augmentation Seed padding
Social attribute lottery	Include all known values in lottery Neighborhood size: Global influence: Random element:
Response data	Check count
Boundary detection (N)		Detect	Clear
Size (w x h)		x
Zoom (cell width)		pixels
Random birth/survival (%)	/
Passive memory	Factor (0-1): , min (default: -1): , max (default: +1):
Active memory	Slots: Allow blocking by enforcement ("duplicate variants") First update at: gens, Update cycle: every gens Refresh active memory 0
kNN similarity calculation	neighborhood search size: Scale similarity scores by neighborhood max	Calculate similarities (kNN-only)
Social similarity handling	Impact level: (Note: for kNN this does NOT mean a choice between geographically near and socially near neighbors, but instead how much of the voting power of a cell is decided by socially similarity)
Processing N
Debug	Debug mode on

Neighborhood rules

Neighborhood order

(0 = simple GoL) Slider type: ratio Slider type: count

No rules needed. Choose a neighborhood size greater than 0 to define rules.

Update statistics

Lifetime tracking

Tallies by Age and Memory

Tallies by Social on the live grid (incl. passive memory)

Tallies by Social in active memory

Seed statistics

Welcome

Welcome to using GISCA! This tool will let you run an advanced cellular automaton with Nth order neighborhood rules and real data from the Linguistic Atlas Project (LAP). We strongly recommend using Google Chrome for the best performance.

Use the keyboard or buttons to control the game
Click individual cells on/off with LEFT MOUSE BUTTON (click or hold down for tracing)
Create boundary cells with CTRL + LEFT MOUSE BUTTON (click or hold down for tracing)