What Links Here? (2 articles…)

Starting Patterns (gol)

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Methuselahs

Here are two famous Methuselahs1 -- Acorn and R-Pentomino.

Acorn

Here it is, a nice little acorn. Let's see what it does.

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Ah, that overflowed the field of play, revealing the somewhat buggy toroidal universe in which the acorn was trapped. This time I'll put the acorn in a bigger field. And hopefully this time it's be big enough.

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How do we know that you and I aren't just strangle moebius loops in the fabric of chance?

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We don't. Keep it weird.

R-Pentomino

Pentomino as in "Five"-o... mino, and mino as in... minotaur, meaning, thus, five bulls. And R for, I guess it's Roger Rabbit.

I'm told to give this one a lot of room right from the start.

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It's like when you invite a friend to the party, but you invite the wrong friend. You invite the one friend who is sure to bring two other people, and they're bound to be just the kind of people who do the same, ad-break-infinitum.

Rabbits

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Die hard

A 'die hard' is any pattern which last for more than a few generations and when it dies it disappears completely, leaving no ash2.

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See Also


  1. simple patterns that are long-lived and grow quite large

  2. ASH -- The debris left behind by a random pattern. Commonly composed of still life and simple oscillators.

 

Game of Life implementation via nomatteus.