Yet another GOL... Code at: https://github.com/villares/sketch-a-day/tree/main/2025/sketch_2025_04_17
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#CellularAutomata #GameOfLife #Processing #Python #py5 #CreativeCoding
I roughed out a game of life penguin toy for a few hours today after not sleeping with the storms last night.
It felt good to just write, rewrite and then rewrite what I was wanting to make as I went - I should have recorded (maybe streamed?) how it evolved.
Live:
https://codepen.io/fractalkitty/live/JojRByL
Code:
https://codepen.io/fractalkitty/pen/JojRByL?editors=0110
You get to draw between each frame with your penguin in the GOL, but can't let more that 60% of the grid die or get caught on an unstable iceberg. The countdown speeds up a bit as you keep going.
Today I’ve embraced my latest hyperfixation: #CellularAutomata, specifically #ConwaysGameOfLife!
I’ve heard of it but never got into it until recently. I’m still learning all the terminologies, but it’s amazing what people can come up with.
Here’s a pattern I found just now, which I’ll name Dudley since it looks like the word “DUD”. These 21 pixels animate until the 1,279th generation, where it settles on 232 pixels. This will entertain me for months 
This implementation of Conway's Game of Life for Medley Interlisp is a program in the LispUsers library of user-contributed software. Here it's running on Medley Online on my Linux Mint system.
@wrongdog explores #CrystalLang building a cellular automaton and a colony optimization algorithm. On a #SteamDeck.
Enjoy the great visuals in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCSqM__ZPAg
#cellular_automaton #gameoflife #pathfinding
#GameOfLife #itch_io #devlog #gameDev #robots #classicGame
https://lispy-gopher-show.itch.io/lisp-game-soft-cons/devlog/750340/turning-robots-into-life-with-the-loop-facility
A fun with lots of #animated #GIF #cellularAutomata
Featuring the #commonLisp #clim #programming tiny changes (and far too much #loopFacility actually).
Conway's game of life, the book: https://conwaylife.com/book/
"This book provides an introduction to Conway's Game of Life, the interesting mathematics behind it, and the methods used to construct many of its most interesting patterns"
Right now over on Hacker News, @dvgrn is doing an AMA about Game of Life and the new book he has out on it, with Nathaniel Johnson:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40131597
This #CellularAutomata game has since become known as Conway's #GameOfLife and famous for the extraordinary complexity that emerges within it. This #ComputationalUniverse is home to beacons that flash, pulsars that beat time and "gliders" and "spaceships" that fly across the computational sky. #JohnConway
Mathematicians Prove the "Omniperiodicity" of Conway's Game of Life
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/mathematicians-prove-the-omniperiodicity-of-conways-game-of-life
Hier hat jemand Conways Game of Life auf der Zeitachse visualisiert. Sehr schöner neuer Aspekt.
Continuing my journey to Godot 4, here is another upgraded project: GoL Godot, Conway's Game of Life implemented as a shader :)
Posting this reminded me of the #gameoflife
..so I just had to do it :D
Now what if I plug this into some kind of #midi ?
How deep is this rabbit hole?
my #GameofLife spawned an ... 
...It's alive! 
#pygame 
does:
generates random initial state Cellular automata on 50x50 matrix (numpy); with timer events and color change(THECOLORS dictionary), mouseklicks or mousewheel to change and reset/newlife;
exporting png in 240 frames @ 20 fps
todo:
make mouse input for patterns to set/read?
https://www.pygame.org/news
New #SarsCoV2 variants are like gliders in #GameOfLife. What creates them all the time?
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8500031/
- https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(23)00336-1/fulltext
In computer game slang: The _very fact_ that raids (infections) are not prevented wherever possible, means that:
1. our common viral enemy hijacks those of our human allies, we fail to protect,
2. farms XPs in them,
3. eventually unleashes new variant wave.
Probably every few months, see also https://farside.link/nitter/1goodtern/status/1722352486638354663
#CoVIDisnotover #MaskUp #CleantheAir
I made Conway's Game of Life in Blender! It was kinda just a test to see if I could pull it off, it's really really not optimized, about 10 seconds each time it has to update all of the cells
Marking as sensitive for flashing lights
I never know how to tag things, how about #Blender #GeometryNodes #gameoflife
