Great work, very much related to our previous work on CA morphogenesis and replication:

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8004527

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-45823-6_...

https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ARTL_a_0019...

https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/978-0-262-3...

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7008733