Collaborate Disseminate
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
With all those e-paper based projects doing the rounds these days, including in our Low Power Challenge, you’d almost forget that monochrome LCDs were the original ultra-low-power display. Without them, …read more Continue reading Low Power Challenge: LCD Solar Creatures Live on Sunlight, Sleep at Night
[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
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
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
Like many of us, [John Whittington] was saddened with the news that John Horton Conway passed away a little earlier this year, and in honor of his work, he added the Game of Life to a flip-dot display that he has been working on. The physicality of an electromechanical display …read more
Continue reading Watch Conway’s Game of Life Flutter Across a Flip-Dot Display
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
via the comic delivery system monikered Randall Munroe at XKCD! [In Memoriam: John Horton Conway]
Permalink
The post XKCD ‘RIP John Conway’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Continue reading XKCD ‘RIP John Conway’
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
Continue reading John Horton Conway, Creator of Conway’s Game of Life, Has Died
Coffee tables are a great place to put your hot beverages, but most don’t offer a lot beyond that. For most people this is perfectly acceptable, but hackers often desire a little more. [Andrei Erdei] is one such person, who built Conway’s Game of Life into this handsome piece of …read more
Continue reading A Stylish Coffee Table Featuring Conway’s Game Of Life