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This could be the next step in automating to a higher scale. Factorio has some real challenges to it -- ticks are extremely fine, and for example, the speed of an inserter is dependent on availability of electricity. Combine such aspects with, say, the plurality of materials which may be on a belt. I fear that the plurality of possible states would move the problem from being compute-bound to being memory-bound. BenoitP on April 13, root parent next [—]. Yep, such details would eat memory at a fast pace.

Players would then strive to make stable, robust bases with as few states as they can. Writing on the blog BoingBoing, tech journalist Clive Thompson remembered discovering it as a computer program published in an earlys computer magazine. As the decades rolled along, creatively-minded techies used the game as a stepping stone to new challenges.

Its Wikipedia entry notes there are even several programs that translate patterns created by the game into music. Perhaps the most impressive feat was years in the making.

Its creators said it took one and a half years of work by a seven-person core team, creating their own Game-of-Life version of the assembly programming language, and then also their own higher-level programming language.

So I found the game of life was sort of overshadowing much more important things, and I did not like it. My capacity for hatred is getting less, I suppose. It was an achievement, and I am quite proud of it.

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Related Stories. Sponsored Feed. In terms of the number of intermediary objects, L is the most complex Herschel conduit to date. Indeed, its tick delay is rather rapid for a quaternary conduit.

Isomers of Guam's tick Herschel conduit. Not content with a single new conduit, Guam proceeded to discover a pi-to-Herschel converter capable of attaching to a handful of 'pre-Herschel' conduits. Moreover, the symmetry of the pi heptomino means that Guam discovered not only one conduit, but two 'isomers'! The conduits are designated F and Fx for the translation and glide-reflection variants, respectively. Matthias' tertiary Herschel conduit, the Lx From an earlier posting of mine, you may remember the contributions of a certain 'MikeP', again from the conwaylife.

Matthias Merzenich has utilised a particular catalyst of his in a few conduits, including the periodic R conduit and a stable Pi-to-century converter. To process the resulting century, Matthias proceeded to find two unique century-to-Herschel converters, one of which is sufficiently compatible to yield a new tertiary Herschel conduit, the Lx Matthias even found a use for this new inundation of Herschel conduits; he has incorporated them into glider guns with smaller dimensions than the current record-holders.

Specifically, they are a p gun derived from the L and p gun based on the Lx Guam's 4hd Herschel receiver. In addition to his spectacular Herschel conduits, Guam also found two reactions in which gliders collide with constellations of still lifes to form extra junk.

We already have a glider-to-beehive and glider-to-block converter, virtue of Paul Callahan, but we can now add loaves and bi-blocks to the collection. The latter is especially interesting, as a glider in the same direction as the original can liberate the bi-block in the form of a Herschel. The gliders are separated by 4 half-diagonals, unlike in previous receivers, where the separation must be 2, 5 or 6; hence, this new receiver could function where others fail.

Also, it transpires that the bi-block functions as a LWSS eater , which can be toggled by incoming gliders. Finally, he noted that two gliders separated by 4 or 5 half-diagonals can be reflected into a single glider. Here it is demonstrated as part of a stable reflector and related pulse divider.

Alas, this reflector does not break any records, unlike the next subject of discussion -- the rectifier. This fast reflector, subject of a previous article on LifeNews, can be used in various conduits for transforming Herschels into gliders, by either modifying the output or assisting in the cleanup of surplus blocks.

To summarise this article, here is a collection of the 30 distinct Herschel conduits including four adjustable ones , and a comprehensive collection of every sufficiently simple conduit, transceiver and converter known, as of the time of writing. Of course, an infinite number of spaceship velocities are known, as the Gemini can be adapted accordingly.

Moreover, Matthias has actually discovered an infinite family of such spaceships, as one of the frontal components can support itself to yield an extensible spaceship. As we've been busy recently, there have been no LifeNews postings for the last couple of months.

Nevertheless, there have still been miraculous discoveries in Life that need reporting; this is one such example. The display is continually refreshed at regular intervals, updating it with the data contained within several memory loops. However, there are some interesting features worth mentioning:.

Nathaniel Johnston's website, conwaylife. Moreover, the homepage is updated with relevant blog entries from his blog , b3s23life , and even LifeNews itself! Scaled-down screenshot of Nathaniel's refurbished website Posted by Adam P.

Robert Wainwright's Lifeline From the editor of the original newletter for Life information. Site Info Authors H. Koenig Adam Goucher Dave Greene. Search Search this blog:. Subscribe to this blog's feed [ What is this? Powered by Movable Type 3. A summary of the known orthogonal spaceship speeds is given in the following diagram, using Ford circles to represent rational numbers: Posted by Adam P. New HighLife velocities HighLife differs quantatively from Conway's Game of Life due to an additional birth condition: if a dead cell is surrounded by six live neighbours, it becomes alive.

The HighLife replicator after thirty-six generations. Matthias Merzenich's 6,6 push reaction. For example, here is part of a screenshot of Golly, looking at the Seahorse Valley in the Mandelbrot set: With Golly, we can run the Mandelbrot set in a cellular automaton.

As with all sufficiently large chaotic HighLife universes, profusions of replicators emerge: You can download the files from Complex Projective 4-Space yourself if you're interested in running a simulation. Life Variants.