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Cellular Automata: the Game of Life

In: Imagine Math 2

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  • Gian Marco Todesco

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The Game of Life (also known as GoL or simply Life) is a solitaire pastime invented by the British mathematician John H. Conway, in 1970. It is a game in a rather special way: there are no winners or losers. Actually it does not require any player at all: its evolution is entirely determined by the initial conditions. Life is a sort of virtual construction toy: one interacts with it by creating an initial shape and observing its evolution. The challenge is to build interesting configurations and, in this regard, the game has very much to offer: with few simple rules in a very simple environment, it allows to simulate a sort of primordial soup in which ordered and chaotic patterns develop together, competing with each other for the available space.

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  • Gian Marco Todesco, 2013. "Cellular Automata: the Game of Life," Springer Books, in: Michele Emmer (ed.), Imagine Math 2, pages 231-243, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-88-470-2889-0_25
    DOI: 10.1007/978-88-470-2889-0_25
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