Re: Search for Life on the 'net

[tsetse@helix.net (an ugly bag of mostly water)]

Galen Tatsuo Komatsu (gkomatsu@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu) wrote:
: 	...not that kind of life, but Conway's life!
: ...on a tangent...in A.K.Dewdney's "Turing Omnibus" he suggested a
: one demensional automaton where a cell would survive to t+1 if two
: or four cells in it's 5 cell (self-centered and included) neighborhood
: were alive.  Did I miss something? no rules for cells coming to life?
: 	I tried it and things just kind died out (I used an 80 cell
: wraparound strip) with the pattern I used.  Eventually I added the
: rule that a (dead) cell would come to life if it had exactly one
: neighbor which proved interesting, my pattern more or less stabilized
: after about 10,000 generations. (two oscillators, but otherwise all
: was stable.)

ah yes, 1-d life. in 1st year university we had an assignment to write
such a program. i used the output to wallpaper my residence room. the
program had to written to allow arbitrary generation rules. i forget
the details, but i expect that neighborhood size, # neighbors to survive
and # neighbors required to be born, plus an inititial population
were the input data. of interest was that the # neighbors could be a
set of numbers, not just one value or a range.

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