Conway's Game of Life, but musical
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Conway's Game of Life, but musical
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Re: Conway's Game of Life, but musical
#2is broken or down rather
Re: Conway's Game of Life, but musical
#3I had very high hopes, because I have initially read: "Conway's Game of Life, but A Musical". Still pretty cool!
Re: Conway's Game of Life, but musical
#4is broken or down rather
The play buttons appear in the top right corner of each panel.
Re: Conway's Game of Life, but musical
#5Nice job. I thought about building something like this many years ago, but ended up experimenting with music generated from abelian sand pile algorithms instead. I've seen a number of attempts at using genetic algorithms to recombine previous musical patterns.
What's obviously missing is a "fitness function" that can approximate the equivalent of human taste, so the final evolved forms just end up being widely random in terms of quality.
AlgoMotion also did a video explanation for a music based version of Conway's Game of Life last year. Highly recommend their videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2SjVwYNr54
Incidentally if you like musical toys like this - Electroplankton [1] was a fun little game that had a series of almost organic musical instruments.
Re: Conway's Game of Life, but musical
#6I love this stuff. This 256 byte video clip is a great example using similar principles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWblpsLZ-O8
Re: Conway's Game of Life, but musical
#7Wolfram Tones uses 1-d cellular automata to generate music. I had a lot of fun playing with this many years ago.
https://tones.wolfram.com/ (not sure if it's still up, doesn't load for me)
Re: Conway's Game of Life, but musical
#8Darn, I can't hear the music on iphone safari :(
Re: Conway's Game of Life, but musical
#9Wolfram Tones uses 1-d cellular automata to generate music. I had a lot of fun playing with this many years ago. https://tones.wolfram.com/ (not sure if it's still up, doesn't load for me)
It’s working for me.
Re: Conway's Game of Life, but musical
#10Darn, I can't hear the music on iphone safari :(
If you try turning your phone off silent it should work!