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Conway’s Game of Life Resources
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You need the following two programs for Assignment 4:
Life
programs: Winlife 32 and Life 32. (Self
extracting) Use these for assignment 4.
Extra attack patterns (already included in program above. Download only if you installed an older version. Extract to same directory as program)
Here are some more resources on
What is the Game of
Life by Pal Callahan: Quickly becoming the classic introduction. Includes
applets
Alan
Hensel’s Page: A nice resource page. Look here
for links to the programs, the best life applet, and newest information on the
life world.
The life lexicon: The
Life world has its own vocabulary. Learn it here.
Eric Weisstein’s Treasure Trove of the Life Cellular Automaton
MathWorld’s
Life page: by Weisstein as well. Has Mathematica resources for Life
Dean Hickerson’s
Life Page: Lots of patterns
A Universal Computer in
the Life world A Minsky
Register Machine, equivalent to a Turing Machine.
Paul
Rendell’s original paper on a Turing Machine in Life (PDF)
Jason’s
Life page: Has search software for interesting patterns, and a page on what
is known and unknown in Life
Exploring
Emergence (Essay on emergent objects with Life applet)
The
Original Scientific American article that made
Life famous.
LifeLab
3.1: Life software for Macs
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