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Mirek's Cellebration (MCell) is a freeware computer program for running one-dimensional and two-dimensional cellular automata. It is written by Mirek Wójtowicz and runs on a Windows platform. It has support for many rules in fifteen different families: "Life", "Generations", "Weighted Life", "Vote for Life", "Rules tables", "Cyclic CA", "1-D binary CA", "1-D totalistic CA", "Neumenn binary", "General binary", "Large than Life", "Margolus neighborhood", "User DLLs", "Special rules", and "Weighted Generations". The latest versions allow users to rewind to previous generations of any open cellular automata, undo changes made to the grid, and find periodic patterns automatically. Extensive CA materials, downloadable source code, and code documentation are available here.