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Play John Conway’s Game of Life Play the Game of Life online, a single player game invented in 1970 by Cambridge mathematician John Conway
101 - John Conway’s Game of Life Game of Life Explanation The Game of Life is not your typical computer game It is a cellular automaton, and was invented by Cambridge mathematician John Conway This game became widely known when it was mentioned in an article published by Scientific American in 1970 It consists of a grid of cells which, based on a few mathematical rules, can live, die or multiply Depending on the initial
Gosper glider gun - John Conway’s Game of Life The first known gun, and indeed the first known finite pattern displaying infinite growth, found by Bill Gosper in November 1970 This period 30 gun remains the smallest known gun in terms of its bounding box, though some variants of the p120 Simkin glider gun have a lower population Gosper later constructed several other guns, such as new gun and the p144 gun shown under factory See also
Caterpillar - John Conway’s Game of Life A spaceship that works by laying tracks at its front end The first example constructed was a p270 17c 45 spaceship built by Gabriel Nivasch in December 2004, based on work by himself, Jason Summers and David Bell This Caterpillar has a population of about 12 million in each generation and was put together by a computer program that Nivasch wrote At the time it was by far the largest and
Infinite growth - John Conway’s Game of Life Growth of a finite pattern such that the population tends to infinity, or at least is unbounded Sometimes the term is used for growth of something other than population (for example, length), but here we will only consider infinite population growth The first known pattern with infinite growth in this sense was the Gosper glider gun, created in a response to a $50 prize challenge by John
P246 gun - John Conway’s Game of Life A true period glider gun with period 246, discovered by Dave Buckingham in June 1996 The 180-degree mod-123 symmetry of its bookend-based engine makes it trivial to modify it into a double-barrelled gun Its single-barreled form is shown below
1-2-3-4 - John Conway’s Game of Life Game of Life Explanation The Game of Life is not your typical computer game It is a cellular automaton, and was invented by Cambridge mathematician John Conway This game became widely known when it was mentioned in an article published by Scientific American in 1970 It consists of a grid of cells which, based on a few mathematical rules, can live, die or multiply Depending on the initial
Tubstretcher - John Conway’s Game of Life Game of Life Explanation The Game of Life is not your typical computer game It is a cellular automaton, and was invented by Cambridge mathematician John Conway This game became widely known when it was mentioned in an article published by Scientific American in 1970 It consists of a grid of cells which, based on a few mathematical rules, can live, die or multiply Depending on the initial
Noahs ark - John Conway’s Game of Life The following diagonal puffer consisting of two switch engines This was found by Charles Corderman in 1971 The name comes from the variety of objects it leaves behind: blocks, blinkers, beehives, loaves, gliders, ships, boats, long boats, beacons and block on tables See also ark
Glider - John Conway’s Game of Life Glider The smallest, most common and first discovered spaceship This was found by Richard Guy in 1970 while Conway's group was attempting to track the evolution of the R-pentomino The name is due in part to the fact that it is glide symmetric (It is often stated that Conway discovered the glider, but he himself has said it was Guy See also the cryptic reference ("some guy") in Winning Ways