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I got interested in Conway's Game of Life when I read the original Martin Gardner article in Scientific American. In 1970 I was the only person in my high school that used the Honeywell Time Share system and I went through reams of paper printing Life patterns. My interest in CA continued through ...

Which reactions or types of patterns would you choose for a CA-inspired or CA-based "never-ending animation"?


I wouldn't choose fixed patterns but if I did I'd want them to randomly be selected from a library of my favorites and I'd want the patterns to run with different color schemes every ...

It's just slightly tricky.


Sorry. You are absolutely correct about this. The Java app always displayed intermediate results before actually advancing. The two step alternating rule you proposed is probably required for other software to exactly emulate what was done in the Java app. And from ...

The problem is that any given cell has no way of knowing how many of its neighbors are going to turn on in the next tick. That's going to depend on the states of a lot of neighbors' neighbors that are outside of the cell's neighborhood.


In my proposal any live cell knows its neighbor count from ...

Using a different color for each total neighbor count seems to work pretty well for colorizing Game of Life. Food for thought.

It should be possible to test this right now in other programs which support multiple states and coloring by state number by turning Game of Life into an equivalent ten ...

Yup, I still miss George Maydwell's showy colorful Color Game of Life Visual Exhibition. I don't miss it so much now that LifeViewer is capable of doing very nearly all the same things, and a bunch of other stuff besides.


The colors used there were based solely on computed neighbor counts ...

The CA rule space which results from alternating two general rules is vastly larger than the CA rule space which results from alternating a strict birth rule with a strict survival rule, since the general rule space includes the restricted rule space as a subset.

Generalized alternating rule ...

Do GOL patterns pass muster as works of art?

Announcing a "new" browser-based (Java and Javascript) downloadable pattern collection.

http://www.collidoscope.com/cgolve/cgolvepc.zip

Instructions: download (about 250K), unzip, open cgolvepc.html in your browser, enjoy.

Features: integrated ...

My attempt at making a hexagonal Yin-Yang fire rule is here:

http://www.collidoscope.com/modernca/he ... rules.html

> "Are people even into this anymore?"

Yes. And you can see many hexagonal Life-like cellular automata rules, including HexLife and Carter Bay's hexagonal rules, in the exhibition at http://www.collidoscope.com/modernca/he ... rules.html