元胞自动机可用来研究很多一般现象。其中包括通信、信息传递、计算、构造 、材料学、复制 、竞争与进化等。同时。它为动力学系统理论中有关秩序 、紊动、混沌、非对称、分形等系统整体行为与复杂现象的研究提供了一个有效的模型工具。(Cellular automata can be used to study many general phenomena. It includes communication, information transfer, calculation, construction, material science, reproduction, competition and evolution. At the same time. It provides an effective model tool for studying the whole behavior and complex phenomena of order, turbulence, chaos, asymmetry and fractal system in dynamical system theory.)