That's not a "physical" version of game of life -- that's a digital version, like every version, but with bigger pixels.
I think "physical" refers to the fact that you initialize the state by pressing physical buttons. That's quite accurate.
Conway's Game of Life, in real life
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#22It is beautiful
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#23When I was a teenager, I read a book about assembly language for the commodore and implemented the game of life in a really simple way. I just used the text screen. To switch on a cell, I would put an asterisk ('*') in it. Then I could run my machine code program and it would evolve according to the rules of the game of life.
And who didn't do that! :)
You could also 4x the resolution by using half- and quarter-block characters from the top half of the ASCII table (or it'd be the PETSCII one i C64 case).
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#24I love this and would love to see it on a wall at our office or something like that. Maybe there's smaller/cheaper led/switches that would work in a handheld version.
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#25Nice. A friend of mine just picked up a Linnstrument, and I’m very tempted to create a Conway’s Game of Life-based musical visualization for it. https://www.rogerlinndesign.com/linnstrument
Neat! For homebrew / "iot" stuff, there's LED button panels like https://www.adafruit.com/product/1929 that could work.
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#26Would be interesting to do this with people and observe the inevitable mistakes they make.
Now that would be simulating life witg life.
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#27I've always wanted something like this board, buttons which can light up (preferably a few colours), to use to make games. Anyone ever found such a board which is hackable / programmable?
https://www.adafruit.com/category/280, they're ready made from 4x4 to 16x8 but in theory you can just put more modules into an enclosure.
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#28That's not a "physical" version of game of life -- that's a digital version, like every version, but with bigger pixels.
Does make me wonder if it's possible to make a physical / analog / mechanical version of Game of Life.
fake edit: yes, kind of: https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/forums/topic/164622-moc-mec...
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#30I don't want to build this or pay for it, but I really want to mess with it for an hour.
You need a science museum!