Conway's Game of Life Recursively Defined

Xah Lee, 2012-03-02, 2012-03-30

Conway's Game of Life within Conway's Game of Life.

The pattern that emulates a single life cell is called “unit life cell”. First discovered in 1996 by David Bell.

there are several different construction of unit life cell. Others are:

• P5760 unit Life cell
• Deep cell
• OTCA metapixel

The one in the video is the OCTA metapixel. It is the only one so far that also VISUALLY emulate GoL.

Here's another vid:

the software used is “Golly”. See: Great Software for Cellular Automata.

see also: Notes on A New Kind of Science.