John Conway's Game Of Life
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Conway's Game of Life by Mike Davis. This program is a simple version of Conway's game of Life. A lit point turns off if there are fewer than two or more than three surrounding lit points. An unlit point turns on if there are exactly three lit neighbors. The 'density' parameter determines how much of the board will start out lit. Created 3 August 2002
Source code: GOL
Built with Processing
I made this image below using MATLAB. Its a one dimensional cellular automata. Each horrizontal line
is representative of the "world" at some time t. At t=0 (the very top line) the world is a completely random
set of black and white (ones and zeros) with no pattern. Then the rules kick in:
At t(i)
if t(i-1) = the one to the right of t(i-1)
then make t(i) white
if t(i-1) =/= the one to the right of t(i-1)
then make t(i) black
and on and on it goes.
Click the link below to see how this next one is generated. The rules are more complicated.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ElementaryCellularAutomaton.html
It has the same initial conditions that the one above had: just a random generation of ones and zeros.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Rule110.html
