#cellularautomation — Public Fediverse posts
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ConwayLife.com
The field of electronic entertainment, our self-selected area of exploration, is vast. On one end you have visceral creations that we don't even bother with, games that are mostly about pointing at people in a virtual world and shooting them. On the other, we have esoteric creations of pure mathematics like Conway's Game of Life.How well-known woul
https://setsideb.com/conwaylife-com/
#niche #CellularAutomation #ConwayLifecom #ConwaysGameOfLife #JohnHortonConway #niche -
Today I’ve embraced my latest hyperfixation: #CellularAutomata, specifically #ConwaysGameOfLife!
I’ve heard of it but never got into it until recently. I’m still learning all the terminologies, but it’s amazing what people can come up with.
Here’s a pattern I found just now, which I’ll name Dudley since it looks like the word “DUD”. These 21 pixels animate until the 1,279th generation, where it settles on 232 pixels. This will entertain me for months :MOULE_Ha: