Conway's Game of Life

3sal2

Hey, a couple of months ago, I've read about Conway's Game of Life. Since then, I've been exploring the game and related cellular automata.

Guidelines:
Use 0 for dead cells.
Use 1 for live cells.
Put patterns in code tags.
Please label your patterns.
For large patterns, you can retrieve them from LifeWiki.*
All Life formats (RLE, MCell, Plaintext, SOF, Life 1.05, and Life 1.06) are accepted.

Example:

1101
0111
0010

B-heptomino

Here, you can discuss what you've read about Life and other Life-like cellular automata.

*Be careful, LifeWiki does not feature every pattern you might want to discuss.

3sal2

3sal2 wrote:
Hey, a couple of months ago, I've read about Conway's Game of Life. Since then, I've been exploring the game and related cellular automata.

Guidelines:
Use 0 for dead cells.
Use 1 for live cells.
Put patterns in code tags.
Please label your patterns.
For large patterns, you can retrieve them from LifeWiki.*
All Life formats (RLE, MCell, Plaintext, SOF, Life 1.05, and Life 1.06) are accepted.
Please label your rule in S/B or B/S notation, and name your rule if possible.

Example 1:
B3/S23 (Conway's Life)
1101
0111
0010
B-heptomino

Example 2:
245/368 (Move)
0100
1010
0001
0010
Jellyfish

Example 3:
B3567/S15678 (Bugs)
1111
1111
Big blinker (works in all rules with B3 and S5 and without B0, B1, B2, or S3, for a total of 4096 rules, from B3/S5 to B345678/S01245678, such as 2x2 and Move)

Here, you can discuss what you've read about Life and other Life-like cellular automata.

*Be careful, LifeWiki does not feature every pattern you might want to discuss.

P.S. My user image is an animation of the HWSS.

Last edited by 3sal2 (May 14, 2013 01:26:35)

trinary

They almost seem alive.

scratchisthebest

trinary wrote:
They almost seem alive.

ba dum psssh

I like Life

It's better than the Milton Bradley Game Of Life that's for sure

3sal2

scratchisthebest wrote:
trinary wrote:
They almost seem alive.
ba dum psssh

I like Life

It's better than the Milton Bradley Game Of Life that's for sure

That has nothing to do with the ^!#@($& subject!

scratchisthebest

So does that post

I like to crash gliders

veggieman001

Nothing is permanent.

Last edited by veggieman001 (July 17, 2013 02:31:27)

3sal2

scratchisthebest wrote:
So does that post

I like to crash gliders

Are you talking about glider syntheses?

3sal2

3sal2 wrote:
scratchisthebest wrote:
So does that post

I like to crash gliders

Are you talking about glider syntheses?

Like this one:

#Life 1.05
#D A three-glider synthesis of pentdecathlon
#N
#P 2 4
*..
*.*
**.
#P -4 0
***
..*
.*.
#P 3 -2
**.
.**
*..

scratchisthebest

Not really

Sometimes I make a big mess of cells
let it run for a bit
pause
then crash a glider into it!

3sal2

Hello? Anybody?

Gravitation

Ah yes. CGoL is quite general, why not just a cellular automata topic?
I've been writing a simulator for it in Scratch. It supports custom rules, and turns out, the R-pentomino becomes an oscillator in B3/S23.

laser314

Lucidlife is a great simulater. It also comes with several preloaded automata.

3sal2

Gravitation wrote:
Ah yes. CGoL is quite general, why not just a cellular automata topic?
I've been writing a simulator for it in Scratch. It supports custom rules, and turns out, the R-pentomino becomes an oscillator in B3/S23.

After 1103 generations…

Gravitation

3sal2 wrote:
Gravitation wrote:
Ah yes. CGoL is quite general, why not just a cellular automata topic?
I've been writing a simulator for it in Scratch. It supports custom rules, and turns out, the R-pentomino becomes an oscillator in B3/S23.
After 1103 generations…

No, with the rule B3/S23 it /is/ an oscillator. And, in CGoL, it actually diminishes into a soup that “has 116 cells and consists of eight blocks, six gliders, four beehives, four blinkers, one boat, one loaf, and one ship,” not an oscillator.

Last edited by Gravitation (Oct. 2, 2013 13:07:30)

Gravitation

Uh, bump? Or is this too uninteresting for the general community?

scratchisthebest

i invented Conway's Game of Checkers once. We were really bored

Rules
1. Set up checkers as normal
2. Move a checker as normal
3. Change the whole board like Conway's Game of Life

4. Go back to step 2 w/ other player
5. If a player runs out of checkers they lose

MrFlash67

If someone could recommend a good web-based or iOS version, then that would be much appreciated. Thanks!

puppetadventurer

This game is so easy, I beat it in like first grade.

Gravitation

puppetadventurer wrote:
This game is so easy, I beat it in like first grade.

lol
How do you beat a zero-player simulation? xD

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