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One of the authors, John Conway, is the inventor of the Game of Life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton
by peterevans 11y ago
One of the authors, John Conway, is the inventor of the Game of Life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway.
- eru 11y agoHis `On Numbers and Games' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Numbers_and_Games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Numbers_and_Games) is also worth a look.
- vacri 11y agoIf you like GOL, check out 'golly', the game-of-life simulator. It has tons of amazing examples included, including a cpu emulator. On sourceforge and probably in your favourite OS repos, too. The banner on their homepage is a [low res version of a] valid game-of-life set: http://golly.sourceforge.net/ http://golly.sourceforge.net/