Conway's Game of Life for curved surfaces (2012)
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Re: Conway's Game of Life for curved surfaces (2012)
#2(2012)
Re: Conway's Game of Life for curved surfaces (2012)
#3The end of the post links to two jsfiddles:
> If you want to try out SmoothLife yourself in your browser, I made a few jsFiddles which illustrate the basic principle. Here is a Fourier based implementation that follows the discussion in this article pretty closely: http://jsfiddle.net/mikola/aj2vq/
> I also made a second WebGL/GPU based implementation that uses a discretization similar to that proposed in Rafler’s original paper: http://jsfiddle.net/mikola/2jenR/
The jsfiddles seem to still be alive, but the "Run" button doesn't work for me. Anyone have any luck with them?
Re: Conway's Game of Life for curved surfaces (2012)
#4The end of the post links to two jsfiddles: > If you want to try out SmoothLife yourself in your browser, I made a few jsFiddles which illustrate the basic principle. Here is a Fourier based implementation that follows the discussion in this article pretty closely: http://jsfiddle.net/mikola/aj2vq/ > I also made a second WebGL/GPU based implementation that uses a discretization similar to that proposed in Rafler’s or…
Same. Looks like the "numeric" JS library is no longer hosted at the URL they link to in their dependency list— I had to replace it with "https://unpkg.com/numeric", which seems to have fixed it for me.
Re: Conway's Game of Life for curved surfaces (2012)
#5What's important is there's a whole Conway wiki with an alien language that a LLM could learn to generate.
Re: Conway's Game of Life for curved surfaces (2012)
#6Discussed (just a bit) at the time:
Conway’s Game of Life for Curved Surfaces - Part 1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4808071 - Nov 2012 (1 comment)
Re: Conway's Game of Life for curved surfaces (2012)
#7(2012)
Added. Thanks!
Re: Conway's Game of Life for curved surfaces (2012)
#8That "smooth life" video was amazing! Really has an actual life feel to it.
Re: Conway's Game of Life for curved surfaces (2012)
#9That same paper was also cited by Lenia [0,1], another family of "continuous cellular automata"!
Re: Conway's Game of Life for curved surfaces (2012)
#10Calculus plus Conway's Game of Life = infinitesimal approximation of actual life while never reaching its full complexity! But the artifice is cool, its similar in many ways to Gaudi's work, except that Gaudi probably understood, in some way, that what he was doing was artificial, which is what makes it both so fascinating and disturbing at the same time: it plays with, and then expands life. We view this as a subjugation of life to architecture--now, of course, computer architecture. What if the infinite overwhelmed the finite instead? Then we could have a power unparalleled in history. But it would not be an infinity from the perspective of the finite; symbolized, but not represented. We could say, beyond infinity, like Buzz Lightyear!