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Golly is a free game-of-life program you can play with: http://golly.sourceforge.net/ http://golly.sourceforge.net/ There's an active community searching-for/
by nealabq 10y ago
Golly is a free game-of-life program you can play with:
http://golly.sourceforge.net/ http://golly.sourceforge.net/
There's an active community searching-for/categorizing/discussing patterns in Conway's game-of-life (GOL) (and other cellular automata). Examples:
http://conwaylife.com/forums/ http://conwaylife.com/forums/
http://pentadecathlon.com/lifenews/ http://pentadecathlon.com/lifenews/
- cmrx64 10y agoI know about GOL and other simple automata, I'm mostly curious about applications in image processing.
- corysama 10y agoHere's a classic article that blurs the lines between image processing and automata. Very sad that it seems offline today. https://web.archive.org/web/20160325174539/http://freespace.virgin.net/hugo.elias/graphics/x_water.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20160325174539/http://freespace....
- avyfain 10y agoThanks for this. I have been playing with CAs recently[1], and doing a lot of GIF rendering based on the Game of Life rules. This water rendering algorithm seems like a great next step for me to experiment with. [1] https://twitter.com/tweetgameoflife https://twitter.com/tweetgameoflife