epic conway's game of life

Rational Animations · 5.6M views · 2011-10-04 · 6:33

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Overview

An animated, musical visualization of Conway's Game of Life showing patterns made in the Golly program.

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HN commenters use it as an illustration of how simple rules can produce surprisingly complex behavior.

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Recreational & visual math Computability & complexity theory Creative coding & generative art

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Kim_Bruning · 2024-01 · Reference
There's an entire field of deterministic mathematics called Chaos Theory, that pretty much encompasses what it says on the tin. It turns out that -innocent, simple looking- finite state deterministic automata can actually be less predictable than the non-deterministic kind. (and it can get pretty wild! [VIDEO] )
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wintorez · 2020-10 · Reference
I was on the same opinion as well. But I would like to borrow form Conway's Game of Life. The initial rules are simple, and to the untrained person, it just creates random blobs that disappear after a while. But then we have things like this: [VIDEO]
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wintorez · 2020-10 · Reference
One thing that makes me think that is possible is Conway's Game of Life. The rules are simple, and on the face value, doesn't create anything exciting, but then we have this: [VIDEO]
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