Twolives
Posted: July 2nd, 2020, 2:39 am
In memory of John Conway, may he rest in peace, I created a symmetrical "matter-antimatter" version of the standard Life called Twolives, in which cells may be "positively" or "negatively" charged.
A "negative" cell is born, when the total sum of its neighbors is -3, and survives, if the total sum of its neighbors is -2 and -3.
As long as there are either only positive or negative cells around, the system acts 100% identical to Life. Some interesting reactions start, when the "matter" and "antimatter" interact. For example, blocks with the opposite charge act like seemingly unbreakable universal eaters.
I would like to know, if anyone else is exploring such non-canonical "signed" symmetrical rules.
Here is my Golly repository (mainly dedicated to another rule I'm exploring for a long while).
Look in the Rules section for Twolives.rule. There is one sample pattern in the Twolives subdirectory. The "negative" cells are emulated as State 2.
https://github.com/yoelmatveyev/Fireworld
A "negative" cell is born, when the total sum of its neighbors is -3, and survives, if the total sum of its neighbors is -2 and -3.
As long as there are either only positive or negative cells around, the system acts 100% identical to Life. Some interesting reactions start, when the "matter" and "antimatter" interact. For example, blocks with the opposite charge act like seemingly unbreakable universal eaters.
I would like to know, if anyone else is exploring such non-canonical "signed" symmetrical rules.
Here is my Golly repository (mainly dedicated to another rule I'm exploring for a long while).
Look in the Rules section for Twolives.rule. There is one sample pattern in the Twolives subdirectory. The "negative" cells are emulated as State 2.
https://github.com/yoelmatveyev/Fireworld