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Conway's Game of Life – Trying It on Images
- andrepd 12y agoInteresting concept, but some video of the results is missing.
- justzisguyuknow 12y agoYeah it sounds really cool but let's see it in action!
- mfisher87 12y ago>That's basically it. The effects this simple game produces can truly be magnificent. Especially with a teaser like this.
- cordite 12y agoA JS implementation (especially where we could drag and drop our own examples) would be especially neat.
- thearn4 12y agoCool idea. I just made a quick implementation for those who want to use it/see it live: https://github.com/thearn/game-of-life/blob/master/image.py https://github.com/thearn/game-of-life/blob/master/image.py I'll make a quick .gif, if folks are interested.
- thisjepisje 12y agoA gif would be nice, or simply some result jpgs, if you like.
- amyjess 12y ago> The only other thing I'll state is that Life is a Turing-complete machine, so with right initial states it can "do" any computer algorithm. This only hints at the more important part: only a Turing-complete language can implement Life. Thus, an implementation of Life in a particular language is proof that that language is Turing-complete.
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- kleer001 12y agotrue, but strangely I've never realized that before, thank you
- jffry 12y agoThe author has a repo on GitHub: https://github.com/anbud/PxlSort https://github.com/anbud/PxlSort (The link was hidden midway through the article and it was very non-obvious that it was a link)
- wollw 12y agoYou can also create automata with video by treating it as a three dimensional world. I did a bit of messing around with this a few months ago[1] and created some examples. The only one I can still find that is interesting is probably this one: http://gfycat.com/SelfreliantUnequaledAmericanindianhorse http://gfycat.com/SelfreliantUnequaledAmericanindianhorse (Forgive the source material.) Of course it's hard to look at all of a video at once, so you only see slices of the actual world... [1] https://github.com/Wollw/Video-Automata https://github.com/Wollw/Video-Automata
- stringham 12y agoHere's an example I made in plnkr.co: http://embed.plnkr.co/y1a3DWh1P8tTTUamsWbE/preview http://embed.plnkr.co/y1a3DWh1P8tTTUamsWbE/preview It begins by filling in the canvas with random colors.
- kleer001 12y agoWell, why not treat the RGB image as 3 games of life? One fore each channel.
- eigenbom 12y agoIf you're interested in how artists use these systems, McCabe's Bone Music is a good start: https://vimeo.com/17329897 https://vimeo.com/17329897.