Hackaday Links: June 30, 2024
A couple of weeks back we featured a story (third item) about a chunk of space jetsam that tried to peacefully return to Earth, only to find a Florida family’s …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: June 30, 2024
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Wooden CNC Sculpture Displays Conway’s Game of Life
Conway’s Game of Life has been the object of fascination for computer hobbyists for decades. Watching the generations tick by is mesmerizing to watch, but programming the data structure and …read more Continue reading Wooden CNC Sculpture Displays Conway’s Game of Life
Solar Powered Game of Life Follows the Sun’s Rhythm
Conway’s Game of Life is a beautiful example of how complex behavior can emerge from a few very simple rules. But while it uses biological terminology such as “cells”, “alive” …read more Continue reading Solar Powered Game of Life Follows the Sun’s Rhythm
This Retro Game Console Puts Vacuum Fluorescent Display to Good Use
Small in size, low-resolution, blocky segments, and a limited color palette — all characteristics of the typical vacuum fluorescent display, any of which would seem to disqualify them as the …read more Continue reading This Retro Game Console Puts Vacuum Fluorescent Display to Good Use
Old Casio Calculator Learns New Tricks
[George Stagg] recently found himself stung by the burden of free time while in lockdown. Needing a project to keep him occupied, he decided to upgrade his 90s Casio CFX-9850G …read more Continue reading Old Casio Calculator Learns New Tricks
The Game Of Life Moves Pretty Fast, If You Don’t Use Stop Motion You Might Miss It
Munged Ferris Bueller quotes aside, Conway’s Game of Life is the classic cellular automata that we all reach for. The usual approach is to just iterate over every cell in …read more Continue reading The Game Of Life Moves Pretty Fast, If You Don’t Use Stop Motion You Might Miss It
A Computer In The Game Of Life
We often hear the term “Turing-complete” without giving much thought as to what the implications might be. Technically Microsoft PowerPoint, Portal 2, and Magic: the Gathering all are Turing-complete, what of it? Yet, each time someone embarks on an incredible quest of perseverance and creates a computer in one of …read more
The Game That Launched 1,000 Hackers
John Conway passed away this week. Even if you don’t know much about mathematics, you will probably know nearly everyone’s favorite cellular automata ruleset: Conway’s “Game of Life”. It’s so much a part of our cultural history, that proto-hacker Eric Scott Raymond suggested using the glider as the hacker emblem. …read more
John Horton Conway, Creator of Conway’s Game of Life, Has Died
Programmers everywhere are familiar with Conway’s Game of Life: whether they’ve written a version themselves or simply seen the mesmerizing action resulting from the cellular automata, it’s a household name in all homes where code is spoken. On Saturday April 11th, 2020 its inventor and namesake, John Horton Conway passed …read more
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Cellular Automata Explorer
Well all know cellular automata from Conway’s Game of Life which simulates cellular evolution using rules based on the state of all eight adjacent cells. [Gavin] has been having fun playing with elementary cellular automata in his spare time. Unlike Conway’s Game, elementary automata uses just the left and right neighbors of a cell to determine the next cell ahead in the row. Despite this comparative simplicity, some really complex patterns emerge, including a Turing-complete one.
[Gavin] started off doing the calculations by hand for fun. He made some nice worksheets for this. As we can easily imagine, doing the …read more
