Conway's Game of Life Recursively Defined
Conway's Game of Life within Conway's Game of Life.
- https://youtu.be/QtJ77qsLrpw
- Conway's Game of Life within Conway's Game of Life.
- Video made by Mike Stay
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~mike/- (aka http://www.youtube.com/user/metawetayt on YouTube.)
The pattern that emulates a single life cell is called “unit life cell”. First discovered in 1996 by David Bell http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/David_Bell
there are several different constructions of unit life cell. Others are:
- http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/P5760_unit_Life_cell
- http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Deep_cell
- http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/OTCA_metapixel
The one in the video is the OCTA metapixel. It is the only one so far that also VISUALLY emulate Game of Life
Here is another vid:
- https://youtu.be/hsXCKPt8u3I
- Kok's galaxy via the OTCA metapixel
- Nathaniel Johnston
- Jul 7, 2010
the software used is “Golly”. See: Great Software for Cellular Automata .