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by gschadow
August 21st, 2020, 3:51 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: I have a hardware only 256 x 256 "Life Machine", is that interesting?
Replies: 7
Views: 3616

Re: I have a hardware only 256 x 256 "Life Machine", is that interesting?

I appreciate all the feed back, and do not be worried about "unwelcoming". I hear it all in good sportmanship.

My representation is dense. I hope soon I can talk more about it. Meanwhile thanks for the feed-back. I think the small field size of 256x256 makes mine still quite a bit limiting. As I ...
by gschadow
August 19th, 2020, 12:00 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: I have a hardware only 256 x 256 "Life Machine", is that interesting?
Replies: 7
Views: 3616

Re: I have a hardware only 256 x 256 "Life Machine", is that interesting?


It will be much more useful if you implement one of those "more useful" automata, for example the maze solver...

I have been searching around trying to make sense of your hint, to understand how maze solving is related to Conway's Game of Life. I found this thesis, "Solving Puzzles using ...
by gschadow
August 18th, 2020, 9:46 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Physical implementation of Conways computer
Replies: 16
Views: 6515

Re: Physical implementation of Conways computer

I just did one, I call The Life Machine™ , a hardware implementation that produces generations in real-time at the speed of the raster image frame rate.

There are other ways to think about this though:

Independent from the actual image, this is what you would do if you want to have an infinite ...
by gschadow
August 17th, 2020, 6:39 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: I have a hardware only 256 x 256 "Life Machine", is that interesting?
Replies: 7
Views: 3616

I have a hardware only 256 x 256 "Life Machine", is that interesting?

Hello, I am new here.

I just finished making a hardware only Life Machine™ on breadboard using 74LSxx chips. I call it The Life Machine™ or Life from Scratch™ It is my first full digital electronics project. It works on an analog oscilloscope in X-Y-Z mode. The field is 256 x 256 pixels in size ...