#gameoflife — Public Fediverse posts

I just stumbled into the fact that in Conway's Game of Life, if you start with a one cell line, you get a Sierpinski triangle.

Apparently, one-cell-thick patterns are interesting: https://conwaylife.com/wiki/One-cell-thick_pattern

#gameoflife #golly #fractal #sierpinski

For the next session of my seminar "Games - Media - Theory" which is about #simulation and #celluarAutomata I finally soldererd 4 of my 8 @adafruit #GameOfLife boards.

#GameScience #GameStudies #ComputerArchaeology

Finally found a reasonably simple UI layer that I could use to animate my GOL (#gameoflife)

#nannou (https://docs.rs/nannou/latest/nannou/)

It's not nearly fast enough for me, but it's a start.

The package already has a GOL example... but I used my own 'board' crate.

i want to play around with #KnightLife, a #GameOfLife variation where the neighborhood is that of a chess knight.

i guess i could code it myself but i probably won't. can someone give me a hint on how i can play with it? maybe using #Golly or something?

there are plenty of oscillators that have been found, but i haven't seen a single spaceship yet.

oscillators: https://erich-friedman.github.io/mathmagic/0115.html
are there spaceships?: https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/40368/the-life-of-a-knight-conway-style
from random seed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=civmpBa_zXc (low quality)