Nick Gotts

Nick Gotts
Born	1954
Residence	Scotland, UK
Nationality	British
Institutions	James Hutton Institute
Alma mater	Unknown

Nicholas M. (Nick) Gotts is a Life enthusiast who is known for developing several very small (by cell count) patterns that exhibit quadratic growth. The previous record-holder for the smallest such pattern is his 26-cell quadratic growth pattern.

Gotts investigated how complexity can emerge from sparse random soup, and what happens in sparse, infinite CGOL arrays, showing that self-organized construction processes lead to the emergence of coherent structures.

Further reading

• N. M. Gotts, Emergent complexity in Conway's Game of Life. Game of Life Cellular Automata chapter 20, A. Adamatzky, Springer-UK, 389-436 (2010). ISBN: 978-1-84996-216-2
• Nicholas M. Gotts, Self-Organized Construction in Sparse Random Arrays of Conway’s Game of Life. New Constructions in Cellular Automata chapter 1, David Griffeath (ed.), Cristopher Moore (ed.), Oxford University Press (2003). ISBN: 9780195137170

External links

• Homepage of Nick Gotts

Patterns found by Nick Gotts

2

• 26-cell quadratic growth

C

• Catacryst

J

• Jaws

M

• Metacatacryst
• Mosquito 1
• Mosquito 2
• Mosquito 3
• Mosquito 5

T

• Teeth