About 4 times, the P78 Frother appears. It is a puffer train whose body is P2, but the trailing end eventually dumps blocks and blinkers. A slight modification to that will make this merely a P2 spaceship.
Search programs were necessary to find these patterns, due to their never appearing naturally or being highly unlikely to be stumbled on by experimentation.
If this "game" seems interesting to you, I know of a program called Golly which is designed to simulate patterns from this game. Using it, you can input random cells and just see what happens, or you can load already found patterns and watch them evolve. Both the patterns and Golly can be downloaded from conway life dot com. Regarding saftety, I have been running this program for about a month, ANd I personally have had no issues with malicious software from them. Just thought I'd say that
For anyone who doesn't get it, I wrote this code which might make it clearer. You look at the board and go through each square one by one. Say I'm on square 2, is it alive? How many neighbours are alive? Then I set square 2 on the new board to whatever. After we've gone over all the squares, then the new board becomes the current board and we display it.
How marvelous that this simple set of instructions produces such wonders!
It's somewhat analogous of the ostensibly complex behavior of ants and termites, mm? Highly advanced, almost magical accomplishments of the hive as a whole, rooted in the extremely straightforward and calculable routines of the individual hive members.
On an old computer I used to have a bizarre version of Conway's Game of Life with slightly modified rules to allow for two species to simultaneously exist and by frequently lead to the other's extinction. I wish I knew what those modified rules were.
Well, you could have two colors of "live" cells and do various things with them. One option is to make both colors act exactly like live cells and use the majority when determining the color of a birth. Another is to make it so that a birth only happens when you have three of one color and none of the other. One more is to make a birth happen when there's three of one color and some other number of the other, and have survival depend on the number of adjacent cells of the same color.
Pretty close. The actual rules are on the right of the screen, under "About This Video" and it's pretty cool how four little rules can lead to all of this.
Golly is also a good program that does more or less the same thing, but it implements an algorithm that can make certain types of patterns go much faster.
@Delta0prative - Just google conway life and you'll find java applets and actual versions that you can download. I tried to post a link, but YT wouldn't let me.
These patterns never appear naturally.
About 4 times, the P78 Frother appears. It is a puffer train whose body is P2, but the trailing end eventually dumps blocks and blinkers. A slight modification to that will make this merely a P2 spaceship.
Search programs were necessary to find these patterns, due to their never appearing naturally or being highly unlikely to be stumbled on by experimentation.
EmmetEarwax 1 week ago
"Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get." Forrest Gump
LimpsOfMuck 2 months ago
If this "game" seems interesting to you, I know of a program called Golly which is designed to simulate patterns from this game. Using it, you can input random cells and just see what happens, or you can load already found patterns and watch them evolve. Both the patterns and Golly can be downloaded from conway life dot com. Regarding saftety, I have been running this program for about a month, ANd I personally have had no issues with malicious software from them. Just thought I'd say that
VicTheMouth 8 months ago
@VicTheMouth remove all the spaces from the website I listed. Youtube mad me put them in to post that comment
VicTheMouth 8 months ago
I have written a very easy tutorial on how life works for anyone interested. Go to GENJIX dot NET and click on life in the sidebar. cya
lumaix 1 year ago
github.com/genjix/lifesuite/blob/master/life.py
that's a newer link. use python 3 to run it.
lumaix 1 year ago
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lumaix 1 year ago
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For anyone who doesn't get it, I wrote this code which might make it clearer. You look at the board and go through each square one by one. Say I'm on square 2, is it alive? How many neighbours are alive? Then I set square 2 on the new board to whatever. After we've gone over all the squares, then the new board becomes the current board and we display it.
lumaix 1 year ago
Amazing.
SentientMachines 2 years ago
How marvelous that this simple set of instructions produces such wonders!
It's somewhat analogous of the ostensibly complex behavior of ants and termites, mm? Highly advanced, almost magical accomplishments of the hive as a whole, rooted in the extremely straightforward and calculable routines of the individual hive members.
Very fascinating stuff. Thanks for making this!
Mysticum81 2 years ago 2
Awesome! Thanks for posting!
AdamLore 3 years ago
the one at 2:18 is kinda like those turtles who build islands of of feces
(IM not making this up lol)
HoweGavin 3 years ago
On an old computer I used to have a bizarre version of Conway's Game of Life with slightly modified rules to allow for two species to simultaneously exist and by frequently lead to the other's extinction. I wish I knew what those modified rules were.
tlwalrus 4 years ago
Well, you could have two colors of "live" cells and do various things with them. One option is to make both colors act exactly like live cells and use the majority when determining the color of a birth. Another is to make it so that a birth only happens when you have three of one color and none of the other. One more is to make a birth happen when there's three of one color and some other number of the other, and have survival depend on the number of adjacent cells of the same color.
ihope127 4 years ago 2
Some of those patterns are really impressive!!
lesath82 4 years ago
tell me if im wrong;
you make 1 pixel, and give him rules (gravity, 1 becomes 2), and you get this? if so, well made!
bananarchy1 4 years ago
Pretty close. The actual rules are on the right of the screen, under "About This Video" and it's pretty cool how four little rules can lead to all of this.
SailorBarsoom 4 years ago
This video was absolutely beautiful.
BTW, I'm a huge conway's life enthusiest. Please please PLEASE tell me where you got those patterns.
DonZabu 4 years ago
i love it!
totheblackrider 4 years ago
artificial biology... interesting...
theedwardianx 4 years ago
Very interesting!
SergeyLymar 4 years ago
I still don't quite understand how this works, but it's cool! can you download this from somewhere or something?
Delta0prative 5 years ago
yeah, this vid was made using Life32 by Johan Bontes. you can google and download it.
qqqsimmons 4 years ago
Golly is also a good program that does more or less the same thing, but it implements an algorithm that can make certain types of patterns go much faster.
ihope127 4 years ago
@Delta0prative - Just google conway life and you'll find java applets and actual versions that you can download. I tried to post a link, but YT wouldn't let me.
HungryGuyStories 1 year ago
Wow. O_O. is this a game?
Phazon77 5 years ago
it's more of a environment to demonstrate how simple rules can lead to complex phenomena.
qqqsimmons 5 years ago