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David I. Bell, Spaceships in Conway's Life. Series of articles posted on comp.theory.cell-automata, Aug-Oct 1992. Now available from his website.
David I. Bell, Speed c/3 Technology in Conway's Life, 17 December 1999. Available from his website.
Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John H. Conway and Richard K. Guy, Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays, II: Games in Particular. Academic Press, 1982.
David J Buckingham, Some Facts of Life. BYTE, December 1978.
Dave Buckingham, My Experience with B-heptominos in Oscillators. 12 October 1996. Available from Paul Callahan's website.
David J. Buckingham and Paul B. Callahan, Tight Bounds on Periodic Cell Configurations in Life. Experimental Mathematics 7:3 (1998) 221-241. Available at http://tinyurl.com/TightBoundsOnCellConfigs.
Noam D. Elkies, The still-Life density problem and its generalizations, pp228-253 of "Voronoi's Impact on Modern Science, Book I", P. Engel, H. Syta (eds), Institute of Mathematics, Kyiv, 1998 = Vol.21 of Proc. Inst. Math. Nat. Acad. Sci. Ukraine, math.CO/9905194.
Martin Gardner, Wheels, Life, and other Mathematical Amusements. W. H. Freeman and Company, 1983.
R. Wm. Gosper, Exploiting Regularities in Large Cellular Spaces. Physica 10D (1984) 75-80.
N. M. Gotts and P. B. Callahan, Emergent structures in sparse fields of Conway's 'Game of Life', in Artificial Life VI: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Artificial Life, MIT Press, 1998.
Mark D Niemiec, Life Algorithms. BYTE, January 1979.
William Poundstone, The Recursive Universe. William Morrow and Company Inc., 1985.
The Game of Life is not your typical computer game. It is a cellular automaton, and was invented by Cambridge mathematician John Conway.
This game became widely known when it was mentioned in an article published by Scientific American in 1970. It consists of a grid of cells which, based on a few mathematical rules, can live, die or multiply. Depending on the initial conditions, the cells form various patterns throughout the course of the game.
Each cell with one or no neighbors dies, as if by solitude.
Each cell with four or more neighbors dies, as if by overpopulation.
Each cell with two or three neighbors survives.
Each cell with three neighbors becomes populated.
Video’s about the Game of Life
Interesting articles about John Conway
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