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Original post: https://plus.google.com/110214848059767137292/posts/WtPBhYJswAe https://plus.google.com/110214848059767137292/posts/WtPBhYJs... Technical detai

Original post: https://plus.google.com/110214848059767137292/posts/WtPBhYJswAe https://plus.google.com/110214848059767137292/posts/WtPBhYJs... Technical details on the YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJe9H6qS82I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJe9H6qS82I (Two lots of source code available: Stephan's and mine) Other discussions about this: Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/118svz/smoothlife_a_continuous_version_of_conways_game/ http://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/118svz/smoothlife_a... Metafilter: http://www.metafilter.com/120749/Smoothlife http://www.metafilter.com/120749/Smoothlife

rm999 14y ago
Very cool, thanks for the links! Are you affiliated with the project?
- tim_hutton 14y ago
  I made an implementation of SmoothLifeL in Ready and this video. Stephan Rafler created the SmoothLife rules and has his own software. Ready is designed to let the user play with a large range of systems like this one, connecting a field of floats to an OpenCL kernel that the user can rewrite on the fly. Check out Ready for some similar patterns, like Robert Munafo's U-Skate world. http://code.google.com/p/reaction-diffusion http://code.google.com/p/reaction-diffusion There's a deep motivation behind all this, which is to try to understand the pattern formation mechanisms that appear in nature and get harnessed by organisms.