Friday, October 12, 2012

Game of Life: modern variants

While I wasn't paying attention, interesting things have been going on in the Game of Life.  First: a video of a floating-point version of Life that looks a lot more organic, fascinatingly. [code] [paper]  Tim Hutton made the video in Ready, a cellular automata exploration platform.  Neat!

Then, as HNN posts often do, this induced somebody else to post this freaky-deaky Life emulated in Life video.  This one uses Golly in its low-level Life grid - a Life platform that has scripting to build really refined structures.  People get really focused on this!

For a library of some of the well-known patterns, here's a pretty cool library site.

It's beautiful.

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