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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Mince on April 14, 2020, 10:12:02 AM

Title: John Conway
Post by: Mince on April 14, 2020, 10:12:02 AM

John Conway, a mathematician who invented the rules for the Game of Life, has been taken by the coronavirus.

(http://cameldung.co.uk/images/conway.jpg)

His rules worked on a grid in which each square was either on (alive) or off (not alive).

1. BIRTHS: A non-alive square adjacent to exactly three alive neighbours becomes alive.
2. SURVIVAL: An alive square with two or three alive neighbours remains alive.
3. DEATHS: An alive square with one or fewer alive neighbours dies.
4. DEATHS BY OVERCROWDING: An alive cell with four or more live neighbours dies.

(http://cameldung.co.uk/images/gol1b.gif)

He created the rules in 1970 without the use of computers, but since then computers have been used to create awesome repeating patterns.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2vgICfQawE

Someone even managed to program the rules of Game of Life using the Game of Life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8


Even an 8-bit programmable computer has been built entirely from the Game of Life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8unMqSp0bFY

Title: Re: John Conway
Post by: Mince on April 14, 2020, 04:42:48 PM

Here is someone's tribute to John Conway.

(http://cameldung.co.uk/images/rip_john_conway.gif)

Title: Re: John Conway
Post by: Bilthehut on April 14, 2020, 06:10:54 PM

Quote from: Mince on April 14, 2020, 04:42:48 PM

Here is someone's tribute to John Conway.

(http://cameldung.co.uk/images/rip_john_conway.gif)

Cool.

Title: Re: John Conway
Post by: The Peepmaster on April 22, 2020, 03:05:02 PM

Quote from: Bilthehut on April 14, 2020, 06:10:54 PM

Quote from: Mince on April 14, 2020, 04:42:48 PM

Here is someone's tribute to John Conway.

(http://cameldung.co.uk/images/rip_john_conway.gif)

Cool.

I merely sent a card saying "Sorry for your loss". Should've drawn a cartoon on it maybe.