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The Game of Life, also known as Conway's Game of Life or simply Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. [1] It is a zero-player game, [2] [3] meaning that its evolution is determined by its initial state, requiring no further input. One interacts with the Game of Life by creating an initial ...
Golly is a tool for the simulation of cellular automata.It is free open-source software written by Andrew Trevorrow and Tomas Rokicki; [3] it can be scripted using Lua [1] or Python.
Gosper's Glider Gun creating "gliders" in the cellular automaton Conway's Game of Life [1] A cellular automaton (pl. cellular automata, abbrev. CA) is a discrete model of computation studied in automata theory. Cellular automata are also called cellular spaces, tessellation automata, homogeneous structures, cellular structures, tessellation ...
The Rule 110 cellular automaton (often called simply Rule 110) [a] is an elementary cellular automaton with interesting behavior on the boundary between stability and chaos. In this respect, it is similar to Conway's Game of Life. Like Life, Rule 110 with a particular repeating background pattern is known to be Turing complete. [2]
In Conway's Game of Life, oscillators had been identified and named as early as 1971. [1] Since then it has been shown that finite oscillators exist for all periods. [2] [3] [4] Additionally, until July 2022, the only known examples for period 34 were considered trivial because they consisted of essentially separate components that oscillate at smaller periods.
A sample autonomous pattern from Lenia. An animation showing the movement of a glider in Lenia. Lenia is a family of cellular automata created by Bert Wang-Chak Chan. [1] [2] [3] It is intended to be a continuous generalization of Conway's Game of Life, with continuous states, space and time.
Hashlife is a memoized algorithm for computing the long-term fate of a given starting configuration in Conway's Game of Life and related cellular automata, much more quickly than would be possible using alternative algorithms that simulate each time step of each cell of the automaton.
Seeds is a cellular automaton in the same family as the Game of Life, initially investigated by Brian Silverman [1] [2] and named by Mirek Wójtowicz. [1] [3] It consists of an infinite two-dimensional grid of cells, each of which may be in one of two states: on or off. Each cell is considered to have eight neighbors (Moore neighborhood), as in ...