“…However, the non-uniform elementary CAs remain the primary focus of this topic. A simple explanation for this fact can be found in Bhattacharjee et al [22]: "The main reason for choosing this class of CAs is twofold: (1) Wolfram, in the early 1980s, showed the efficacy of 3-neighborhood binary CAs in modeling physical systems and in producing complex global behavior, and (2) ease of implementing Wolfram's set of rules in hardware"; this paper also provides historical details on the introduction of ν-CAs.…”