Googling for "conway's game of life" gives a simulation in the results page
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Re: Googling for "conway's game of life" gives a simulation in the results page
#2not for me
Re: Googling for "conway's game of life" gives a simulation in the results page
#3not for me
If you are on a big screen, it might not be obvious. It's in the upper right and it's very subtle.
Re: Googling for "conway's game of life" gives a simulation in the results page
#4Here's the interview I published with the creator! http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how-a-google-engineer-b...
Re: Googling for "conway's game of life" gives a simulation in the results page
#5not for me
Don't forget to allow scripts :D
Re: Googling for "conway's game of life" gives a simulation in the results page
#6There appears to be a semi-persistent "Google" text - when I cleared out the 'G' it was recreated within 20 steps by the neighbouring 'o'. Can't possibly be organic can it?
E: it seems to always appear like that; so probably not organic and I'm not up for searching minified sources to verify.
Re: Googling for "conway's game of life" gives a simulation in the results page
#7There appears to be a semi-persistent "Google" text - when I cleared out the 'G' it was recreated within 20 steps by the neighbouring 'o'. Can't possibly be organic can it? E: it seems to always appear like that; so probably not organic and I'm not up for searching minified sources to verify.
Could it be an easter egg?
Re: Googling for "conway's game of life" gives a simulation in the results page
#8There appears to be a semi-persistent "Google" text - when I cleared out the 'G' it was recreated within 20 steps by the neighbouring 'o'. Can't possibly be organic can it? E: it seems to always appear like that; so probably not organic and I'm not up for searching minified sources to verify.
Could it be an easter egg?
Was under the impression the whole thing was - just didn't notice it at first and had a bit of a woah moment :)
Re: Googling for "conway's game of life" gives a simulation in the results page
#9What a reminiscent moment :)
Re: Googling for "conway's game of life" gives a simulation in the results page
#10There appears to be a semi-persistent "Google" text - when I cleared out the 'G' it was recreated within 20 steps by the neighbouring 'o'. Can't possibly be organic can it? E: it seems to always appear like that; so probably not organic and I'm not up for searching minified sources to verify.
It always appears like that because he's written it so that when the "Google" cells are active, they appear darker than normal active cells. Whether these cells get activated or not follow the normal rules of Conway's game of live. So yeah, it's organic, but with a little trickery, the "Google" stands out as the pixels in the area blink on and off.
You can confirm this by pausing the simulation and clicking on all the cells in the region to switch them to the 'active' state: http://imageshack.us/a/img138/2751/71405409.png
