Conway S Game Of Life Starting Patterns

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Conway s game of life starting patterns. This page contains a javascript implementation of the well know john conway s game of life. One interacts with the game of life by creating an initial configuration and observing how it evolves. I m cleaning up some broken links for this release. It uses the list life algorithm by tony finch and a canvas interface for drawing.

It is turing complete and can simulate a universal constructor or any other turing machine. The game of life also known simply as life is a cellular automaton devised by the british mathematician john horton conway in 1970. For a space that is empty or unpopulated. This is an implementation of conway s game of life or more precisely the super fast hashlife algorithm written in javascript using the canvas tag.

The game of life an example of a cellular automaton is played on an infinite two dimensional rectangular grid of cells. It is the fourth most common object on adam p. The status of each cell changes each turn of the game also called a generation depending on the statuses of that cell s 8 neighbors. Each cell with one or no neighbors dies as if by solitude.

Each cell with two or three neighbors survives. It is a zero player game meaning that its evolution is determined by its initial state requiring no further input. Few patterns for visual effect. In fact there are thousands of documented patterns in the game of life universe most with a variety of information about them including how many generations it takes for them to become stable what patterns appear at that stable state what interesting patterns appear while they are running and what can be added to the patterns to manipulate their productions in the game.

The first interesting patterns appeared shortly after conway invented life. For many years conway consistently rounded up his discovery of the game of life to 1970. Glider synthesis main article. Many different types of patterns occur in the game of life including static patterns still lives repeating patterns oscillators a superset of still lives and patterns that translate themselves across the board spaceships.

Patterns programs and links for conway s game of life update 11 feb 01 this is the new location for the game of life page that i began in 1995 while at johns hopkins. Each cell with four or more neighbors dies as if by overpopulation. Conway s game of life part 2 duration. Neighbors of a cell are cells that touch that cell either horizontal vertical or diagonal from that cell.

The glider is often produced by randomly generated starting patterns. Common examples of these three classes are shown below with live cells shown in black and dead cells shown in white. Two different rules of progress for compare. If you have a link to the old url i d appreciate it a lot if you could update it.