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The Game of Life, also known as Conway's Game of Life or simply Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. [1] It is a zero-player game, [2] [3] meaning that its evolution is determined by its initial state, requiring no further input. One interacts with the Game of Life by creating an initial ...
Conway came to dislike how discussions of him heavily focused on his Game of Life, feeling that it overshadowed deeper and more important things he had done, although he remained proud of his work on it. [26] The game helped to launch a new branch of mathematics, the field of cellular automata. [27] The Game of Life is known to be Turing complete.
The game was originally created in 1860 by Milton Bradley as The Checkered Game of Life, and was the first game created by Bradley, a successful lithographer.The game sold 45,000 copies by the end of its first year.
In Conway's Game of Life, oscillators had been identified and named as early as 1971. [1] Since then it has been shown that finite oscillators exist for all periods. [2] [3] [4] Additionally, until July 2022, the only known examples for period 34 were considered trivial because they consisted of essentially separate components that oscillate at smaller periods.
Eric S. Raymond has proposed the glider as an emblem to represent the hacker subculture, as the Game of Life appeals to hackers, and the concept of the glider was "born at almost the same time as the Internet and Unix". [7] The emblem is in use in various places within the subculture. [8] [9]
In Conway's Game of Life and other cellular automata, a still life is a pattern that does not change from one generation to the next. The term comes from the art world where a still life painting or photograph depicts an inanimate scene. In cellular automata, a still life can be thought of as an oscillator with unit period. [1]
Enjoy a classic game of Hearts and watch out for the Queen of Spades! ... Jigsaw: Life of Luxury. Play. Masque Publishing. Jigsaw: Mechanical Wonders. Play.
LifeWiki's homepage. LifeWiki is a wiki dedicated to Conway's Game of Life. [1] [2] It hosts over 2000 articles on the subject [3] and a large collection of Life patterns stored in a format based on run-length encoding [4] that it uses to interoperate with other Life software such as Golly.