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Conway's Game of Life, using floating point values instead of integers

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Re: Conway's Game of Life, using floating point values instead of integers

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Post by dmorgan »

dexter313 wrote: post #2

Awesome, but the results/behaviour (in the video) don't seem very complex like the original Conway's game of life.

Huh? It looks even more complex --organic even.

You don't confuse the fast rate of change in some Conway implementations (which is a detail) with actual complexity.

Re: Conway's Game of Life, using floating point values instead of integers

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Post by mbrubeck »

Anchor wrote: post #26
tisme wrote: post #13

Fascinating, totally mesmerizing video. That's reminiscent of something that you could be observing under a microscope.

I wonder what a 3D version ( http://www.ibiblio.org/e-notes/Life/Game.htm ) of a continuous game of life would look like... could similar cell-like structures emerge with these kind of rules also in 3D.

SmoothLife has been generalized to 3D too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RsEyu8Ol-Q&NR=1

Re: Conway's Game of Life, using floating point values instead of integers

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Post by dmorgan »

dexter313 wrote: post #6
canistr wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It does seem more "organic", if you will.

It does. Still I think the point of game of life is not to look organic but to make complex thing from very simple rules. Like supposedly the universe we live in. Conway's game of life would look organic if you zoomed out enough, no computer can do that of course.

>It does. Still I think the point of game of life is not to look organic but to make complex thing from very simple rules.

Em, it's called "Game of Life" because the whole point was for it to look and behave _organic (Wikipedia: "Conway was interested in a problem presented in the 1940s by mathematician John von Neumann, who attempted to find a hypothetical machine that could build copies of itself").

Re: Conway's Game of Life, using floating point values instead of integers

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Post by rm999 »

dexter313 wrote: post #6
canistr wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It does seem more "organic", if you will.

It does. Still I think the point of game of life is not to look organic but to make complex thing from very simple rules. Like supposedly the universe we live in. Conway's game of life would look organic if you zoomed out enough, no computer can do that of course.

> Conway's game of life would look organic if you zoomed out enough,

Are you sure? This isn't obvious to me.

Re: Conway's Game of Life, using floating point values instead of integers

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Post by rm999 »

tim_hutton wrote: post #38

Original post: https://plus.google.com/110214848059767137292/posts/WtPBhYJs... Technical details on the YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJe9H6qS82I (Two lots of source code available: Stephan's and mine) Other discussions about this: Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/118svz/smoothlife_a... Metafilter: http://www.metafilter.com/120749/Smoothlife

Very cool, thanks for the links! Are you affiliated with the project?
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