Conway's Game of Life Imitates Conway's Game of Life

This may be the craziest shit I've ever seen:

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Also, "Life" with floating point values:

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I don't get it. What is it?

Funny how such a simple set of rules can lead to something which resembles "life".

The next one begins a bit of info about the set of rules.

Around 3:09 the ants made a swastika.

pretty awesome. Life is always something I find great but i don't want to learn anything past the basic rules.

because math

because math

thx for posting, especially enjoyed that SmoothLife version!

anybody have a link to Kanye's Game of Life? pretty sure it's a watmmer's creation

Oh, wow. Nice vid.

Game of Life is also Turing complete so you could basically do any program that you could do with ordinary programming languages also with it. Well, disregarding the I/O but in a computational and algorithmic point of view.

Did Conway create the game pre-computers? Would you have to draw it all out?

smooth life is IDM. Would make great vj material.

I really want to know how long it would take to get things like this to form on their own. I wonder if a large grid could be built with independently operating cells (not operating on the processor of a computer controlling all cells), so that each cell would be able to change extremely fast, and one could get through billions upon billions of turns and see what happened. You could also do crazy stuff with rulesets if each one had its own rules or changing rules or something.

pew pew!

I wonder how long you'd have to have it going and on how large a scale before things actually became life-like.

That video does well to explain how I feel really is. Nothing But Fractals

Proper use of Shepard tone in that first clip!

  On 10/15/2012 at 12:28 AM, ZiggomaticV17 said:

That video does well to explain how I feel really is. Nothing But Fractals

How i feel life really is*

Dear God, that is a beautiful video.

I've been fascinated by Conway's GoL for years, but this is a whole new level of amazement. It really opens your mind to the recursive, endlessly growing nature of the universe, and shit.

Ever tried watching the Game of Life while listening to VI Scose Poise by Autechre? It's pretty lucid.

I wanna make a 3d gol with cells that can superposition, entangled cells and lots of mental features.

  On 10/15/2012 at 1:02 AM, ZiggomaticV17 said:

  On 10/15/2012 at 12:28 AM, ZiggomaticV17 said:

That video does well to explain how I feel really is. Nothing But Fractals

 

How i feel life really is*

we're just another branch of the great fractal

hail Great Fractal holiest of all fractals AMEN

The reality is games within games.