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Recursive Game of Life

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Re: Recursive Game of Life

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Post by taink »

sushibowl wrote: post #49
ranting-moth wrote: post #47

Doesn't work in Firefox Uncaught Object { message: "assertion error", stack: "C@ https://oimo.io/works/life/main.js:31:459\nze@https://oimo.i... , g: {…}, value: "assertion error" } main.js:37:66

I use firefox 108, worked for me just fine

Works with 107.0.1 as well

Re: Recursive Game of Life

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Post by mr_mitm »

kleene_op wrote: post #42
rodrigosetti wrote: post #3

This is awesome. How would one describe this formal system? There are no cells essentially

That's what's really awesome about it. In essence there's nothing but the rules of the game of life. I wonder if it's the same for reality. Everytime we've been looking at some particles we deemed fundamental they appear to be made of even smaller ones.

> Everytime we've been looking at some particles we deemed fundamental they appear to be made of even smaller ones.

Not everytime. There is a list of particles that we currently deem fundamental, because no one has found any structure in them. But maybe we haven't looked closely enough yet. Some entertain the idea that they consist of vibrating strings instead of structurless, pointlike particles, but then those would be fundamental.

Re: Recursive Game of Life

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Post by fooker »

It is interesting to observe that the perception of time changes with zooming in/out. I know the actual speed of the gliders remains the same, but it seems to my eye that they speed up if you zoom out and slow down if you zoom in.

I wonder if this perception has an analogue in the physical world that has relativity as a consequence.

Re: Recursive Game of Life

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Post by traes »

strenholme wrote: post #40

While an interesting effect, this recursive nature of this game can not be seen unless one has a mouse scroll wheel. I think it would be good to allow zoom in/zoom out to be done a different way (such as page up/page down or +/-). Not everyone has a mouse scroll wheel.

While this may not work for tablets (?), the vast majority of laptops have a setting called two-finger scrolling that lets you use two fingers on a trackpad to give scroll wheel inputs.

Re: Recursive Game of Life

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Post by eru »

mr_mitm wrote: post #53
kleene_op wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's what's really awesome about it. In essence there's nothing but the rules of the game of life. I wonder if it's the same for reality. Everytime we've been looking at some particles we deemed fundamental they appear to be made of even smaller ones.

> Everytime we've been looking at some particles we deemed fundamental they appear to be made of even smaller ones. Not everytime. There is a list of particles that we currently deem fundamental, because no one has found any structure in them. But maybe we haven't looked closely enough yet. Some entertain the idea that they consist of vibrating strings instead of structurless, pointlike particles, but then those woul…

Well, electrons are sort-of fundamental.

But they can also be seen as quantized excitations of some underlying quantum field.

Re: Recursive Game of Life

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Post by [deleted] »

Jerrrry wrote: post #9

At a certain draw distance (probably/hopefully depending on framerate and other specs), the platform replaces the individual cells with the OTCA metapixel, effectively giving the illusion that it is GoL all the way down. Neat, even when you know the trick. https://conwaylife.com/wiki/OTCA_metapixel

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