The phrase "life-like cellular automaton" dates back at least to Barral, Chaté & Manneville 1992, who used it in a broader sense to refer to outer totalistic automata, not necessarily of two dimensions. The more specific meaning given here was used e.g. in several chapters of Adamatzky 2010. See: Barral, Bernard; Chaté, Hugues; Manneville, Paul (1992). „Collective behaviors in a family of high-dimensional cellular automata”. Physics Letters A. 163 (4): 279—285. Bibcode:1992PhLA..163..279B. doi:10.1016/0375-9601(92)91013-H.
The phrase "life-like cellular automaton" dates back at least to Barral, Chaté & Manneville 1992, who used it in a broader sense to refer to outer totalistic automata, not necessarily of two dimensions. The more specific meaning given here was used e.g. in several chapters of Adamatzky 2010. See: Barral, Bernard; Chaté, Hugues; Manneville, Paul (1992). „Collective behaviors in a family of high-dimensional cellular automata”. Physics Letters A. 163 (4): 279—285. Bibcode:1992PhLA..163..279B. doi:10.1016/0375-9601(92)91013-H.
