Conway's Game of Life

Comments primarily compare the discussed project to Conway's Game of Life, share links to Wikipedia and simulators like Golly, and explore related cellular automata patterns, implementations, and emergent behaviors.

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EGreg Nov 8, 2013 View on HN

Is this kind of like Conway's game of life?

hl5 May 30, 2017 View on HN

Conway's game of lifehttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life#

_akhe Apr 11, 2024 View on HN

Gives me Conway's Game of Life vibes! Love this kind of stuff, nice work :)

elwell Dec 29, 2023 View on HN

It's an iteration on Conway's "Game of Life".

kasra Oct 12, 2012 View on HN

Have you googled "conway's game of life" recently?

tocs3 Apr 3, 2021 View on HN

A mechanical Conway's Game of Life.

sinuhe69 Sep 30, 2019 View on HN

How about Conway Game of Life. The rules are simple but emergent pattern are complex enough that Wolfram could write a whole book about it.

randtrain34 Jul 9, 2020 View on HN

What's the algorithm for this? Is it just Conway's game of life?

amboo7 Apr 8, 2022 View on HN

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life?wprov=...

OscarCunningham Aug 25, 2022 View on HN

You might have heard of Conway's Game of Life.