x = 8, y = 10, rule = B3/S23
3b2o$3b2o$2b3o$4bobo$2obobobo$3bo2bo$2bobo2bo$2bo4bo$2bo4bo$2bo!
natejasper133 wrote:Why didn't Life-like cellular automata get invented much earlier? The rules are incredibly simple, and it doesn't need computers to play.
KittyTac wrote:Answered in a similar thread by me. The one who invented them didn't consider them interesting and didn't publish. Or that recording did not survive, especially if it was first discovered in the middle ages.
77topaz wrote:I think one major factor in the recency of CA research, specifically CGoL, is that, to study the evolution of anything but the most basic patterns, you really need computing power. Before the 1970s, there really wasn't any way to simulate those larger patterns in any feasible time.
Is this true? I thought GoL was only proven universal once some glider circuitry had been developed.Apple Bottom wrote:Remember that although it was known right from the start that Life was universal (based, indeed, on one of those rather more abstract results previously proven for certain classes of CAs), even the glider wasn't found immediately.
Macbi wrote:Is this true? I thought GoL was only proven universal once some glider circuitry had been developed.Apple Bottom wrote:Remember that although it was known right from the start that Life was universal (based, indeed, on one of those rather more abstract results previously proven for certain classes of CAs), even the glider wasn't found immediately.
Macbi wrote:I think you are misremembering. That would be extremely magical if true.
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