Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Conway's Game of Life. The Game of Life, also known simply 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.
John Horton Conway FRS (26 December 1937 – 11 April 2020) was an English mathematician active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory and coding theory. He also made contributions to many branches of recreational mathematics, most notably the invention of the cellular automaton called the Game of Life. Born and raised in Liverpool, Conway spent ...
Glider (Conway's Game of Life) The mutation and movement of a "glider". A three-dimensional view of a glider, with previous generations visible going down the z-axis. The c/4 period is clearly visible as "stacks" of cells that remain alive for successive generations. The glider is a pattern that travels across the board in Conway's Game of Life.
British mathematician John Conway invented the Game of Life in 1970. Basically, the Game of Life tracks the on or off state—the life—of a series of cells on a grid across timesteps.
Bill Gosper discovered the first glider gun in 1970, earning $50 from Conway. The discovery of the glider gun eventually led to the proof that Conway's Game of Life could function as a Turing machine. [3] For many years this glider gun was the smallest one known in Life, [4] although other rules had smaller guns.
Still life (cellular automaton) In Conway's Game of Life and other cellular automata, a still life is a pattern that does not change from one generation to the next. The term comes from the art world where a still life painting or photograph depicts an inanimate scene. In cellular automata, a still life can be thought of as an oscillator with ...
LifeWiki is a wiki dedicated to Conway's Game of Life. [ 1][ 2] It hosts over 2000 articles on the subject [ 3] and a large collection of Life patterns stored in a format based on run-length encoding [ 4] that it uses to interoperate with other Life software such as Golly. [ 5]
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. As a consequence of its continuous, high-resolution domain, the complex autonomous patterns ("lifeforms" or "spaceships") generated in Lenia are ...