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The Lasting Lessons of John Conway's Game of Life (2020)
Author : Petiver
Score : 37 points
Date : 2021-02-18 23:36 UTC (23 hours ago)
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| neonate wrote:
| https://archive.is/88J9w
| lalaithion wrote:
| Sad to see no mention of the fact that we have built computers in
| Game of Life, including one that can play tetris:
| https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/11880/build-a-w...
| seph-reed wrote:
| There is one mention of it in one of the quotes.
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| > Melanie Mitchell -- Professor of complexity, Santa Fe
| Institute
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| Given that Conway's proof that the Game of Life can be made to
| simulate a Universal Computer -- that is, it could be
| "programmed" to carry out any computation that a traditional
| computer can do -- the extremely simple rules can give rise to
| the most complex and most unpredictable behavior possible
| leephillips wrote:
| The video at the top of the article seems to be a depiction of
| a computer made in Life that encodes Life.
|
| Melanie Mitchell's comment, early in the article, mentions that
| fact that you are sad to see no mention of.
| news_to_me wrote:
| Satisfying to see Kjetil Golid's work mentioned -- one of my
| favorite artists!
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| https://www.katevassgalerie.com/kjetil-golid
| blacksmith_tb wrote:
| Yes, great stuff - his own site has some works you can tinker
| with, too[1], along with links to the source[2].
|
| 1: https://generated.space/sketch/ornament/ 2:
| https://github.com/kgolid/ornament
| motohagiography wrote:
| Thank you for linking this, super cool. His piece on Byrne's
| Euclid is amazing: https://generated.space/sketch/byrne-
| proofs/
| seph-reed wrote:
| Fun debate: Does "Conways Game of Life" constitute a universe? If
| so, do those forms within it have life?
| OscarCunningham wrote:
| It's hard to make structures in CGoL that are robust to
| collisions. So if you randomly initialised the universe I
| suspect you would never get life, because any complex structure
| that did arise would crash into random junk and be destroyed as
| soon as it tried to move.
| undreren wrote:
| If all nodes had a 1:1,000,000,000 chance to randomly flip
| every tick, then resilient structures would probably arise
| eventually, given a very large (or infinite) board.
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