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| author | Aleksej Bobylev <al.bobylev@gmail.com> |
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| date | Mon Nov 03 00:55:32 2014 +0200 (2014-11-03) |
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| samuel_trassare@11983 | 1 GtkLife is a fast, featureful, open-source Conway's Life program. |
| samuel_trassare@11983 | 2 |
| samuel_trassare@11983 | 3 Conway's Life is a form of artificial life (specifically, a cellular automaton)- |
| samuel_trassare@11983 | 4 one of the simplest there is. There are only a few rules: |
| samuel_trassare@11983 | 5 |
| samuel_trassare@11983 | 6 The game is played on a rectangular grid, where each cell is either alive or dead. |
| samuel_trassare@11983 | 7 Each generation is computed from the state of the previous generation, using rules 3 and 4: |
| samuel_trassare@11983 | 8 A live cell with 2 or 3 live neighbors (adjacent cells, including diagonals) lives on. Otherwise it dies. |
| samuel_trassare@11983 | 9 A dead cell with exactly 3 live neighbors comes to life. |
| samuel_trassare@11983 | 10 |
| samuel_trassare@11983 | 11 That's all there is to it. Yet fascinating behavior arises from these simple |
| samuel_trassare@11983 | 12 rules. |