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Is there a visualization of the glider in the thread? Would love to see how it evolves with one dimension being time.
by eig 10mo ago
Is there a visualization of the glider in the thread? Would love to see how it evolves with one dimension being time.
- pavel_lishin 10mo agoMy understanding (which could be wildly wrong, I only skimmed the thread) is that it's running in a standard 2-dimensional Game of Life grid, it just happens to start out as a 1x3.7B cell line.
- IAmBroom 10mo agoPretty sure the GOL grid has more than one of those lines...
- sebzim4500 10mo agoAfter the first step it isn't 1D any more, so I don't think that visualization is possible
- AlotOfReading 10mo agoIt's possible. It'd just be a 3D visualization and more importantly, stupendously huge. If each cell was a cubic millimeter, the shape would be 3700km wide, and stretch 1/3rd of the way to the moon.
- nomel 10mo agoI'm having trouble finding a common image file format that has > 32bit resolution fields, fit it in.
- ethmarks 10mo agoAnd if each cell was a cubic micrometer (which is a side length 200-300 times smaller than a pixel on a typical screen and 50-100 times thinner than a human hair), it'd still stretch 3.7 kilometers, which is about the length of a commercial airport runway.
- creatonez 10mo agoThe best way to run it is in the software Golly. It has the HashLife algorithm needed to make it run fast enough to see it finish.