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CMC behaviour

This section presents a survey of behaviour of a CMC with N=12. The survey is by no means exhaustive, but some illustrative results are given. In all cases, the `input' of the CMC is taken as ( i.e. the state of cell 1 as a function of time) and the `output' as .

In practice, the output is almost always an amplitude modulated period-2 waveform in the range of parameters we consider. A typical example is given in figure 2. If instead is monitored, the envelope of this modulation is seen, and this is what is plotted in all the figures below.

  
Figure 2: Sample of a typical output waveform, , showing the amplitude modulation effect. The same waveform sampled every other timestep is shown superimposed.





Jonathan Deane, and David Jefferies
Tue May 28 11:26:02 BST 1996