Conway's Game of Life
Discussion
I am fascinated by the fact that you can create a conways game of life inside the game of life 😂
What really gets me is the gradient of complexity that comes from GoL.
You got GoL which is grid based, where each pixel is governed by a few rules if its immediate .
Then there's Larger Than Life, which picks a radius each pixel to act on based on those same rules, but creates more interesting behaviors.
Then there's Lenia, which takes the grid size to 0, creating a continuous field and the rules are PDEs of the grid.
Then, the furthest up, you got particle Lenia. So rather than apply the rules to the grid itself (essentially defining the physics for the grid), you define the rules of attraction and repulsion on individual particles. Now you got some really interesting and crazy possibilities:
https://google-research.github.io/self-organising-systems/particle-lenia/
Absolutely amazing! Creating complex behavior from simple rules, opens up so many possibilities.
I sometimes wonder if we are just a game of life that has run for a very long time.
The thing that gets me is in all the complexity you always see symmetry. I wonder if it is a nature of the discrete properties of the computer, but you see it in nature too.
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