Cellular automation... Anyone

[yandy_yay]

So erm yeah anyone here play/experiment with cellular automation such as conway's game of life or brian silverman's wireworld.

Regards
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past bikes: (20 years ago) cg-125 (wriiten off), C-50 (thrashed n' finnaly scrapped), CZ-125 (nicked - never recovered, insurance payout was more than i paid for it !!!)
Current bikes: GN 125(now sold), Divvy 600s.

[neil.]

Had the 'Life' game on the Amiga years ago, from a cover disk on a computer magazine from 1989/90. Was based on quite simple logic about how the cells would divide, die etc. Fun to watch all the pretty patterns develop but that's all I can really remember.
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CBT February 2008 | A2 June 2008 | Yamaha YBR125 (written off) | Honda CBF125 (current)

[Blue_SV650S]

No ... but was intrigued, so read up on the rules and running an experiment now!

"The universe of the Game of Life is an infinite two-dimensional orthogonal grid of square cells, each of which is in one of two possible states, live or dead. Every cell interacts with its eight neighbours, which are the cells that are directly horizontally, vertically, or diagonally adjacent. At each step in time, the following transitions occur:

Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if by loneliness.

Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overcrowding.

Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives, unchanged, to the next generation.

Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours comes to life.

The initial pattern constitutes the 'seed' of the system. "

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

[Blue_SV650S]

Here is the first seed ... (start state is the bottom one, top one is the final state after 150 generations).

Life seems to reach a steady state at ~130 generations ...
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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

[Blue_SV650S]

Ok, second start state at the bottom, top end state. Life seems to reach steady state about 160 generations on this one ...

Good if not slightly geeky fun this!!
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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

[yandy_yay]

yer it is a bit geeky lol....

Goly's hashlife is a good cross-platform program you can use to explore Linky. comes with plenty of demo's and is quite easy to use, also does lots of other rules for cellular automation.
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past bikes: (20 years ago) cg-125 (wriiten off), C-50 (thrashed n' finnaly scrapped), CZ-125 (nicked - never recovered, insurance payout was more than i paid for it !!!)
Current bikes: GN 125(now sold), Divvy 600s.

[Blue_SV650S]

[G]

I made a 'Game of life' with Excel macros many years ago when bored, waiting for some software to repeatedly install (documenting install process.)

[ms51ves3]

Clicky

Interesting.