Brice Due made a 2048x2048 Life pattern that simulates the Life rules. All the machinery is in a thin layer around the edge; the center is an empty field that gets flooded with LWSS's when it's turned on. Since the size of the pattern is a power of 2, Golly can memoize its internal states efficiently and can run it as fast as a single pixel. There's a "metafier" script in Golly that takes any pattern and constructs a grid of metapixels running that pattern. I took part of the metapixel itself, a stream of LWSSs, and then made a small video that zooms out and speeds up, only to return to the image at the beginning of the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtJ77qsLrpw I then did a version of Escher's "Print Gallery" http://media.cleveland.com/ent_impact_arts/photo/ax192-7f8a-9jpg-b7073d105f6... but using the LWSSs: http://reperiendi.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/print-gallery-metapixel/ Here are some alternate versions involving doubled or reversed spirals: http://reperiendi.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/more-views-of-the-metapixel/ I made a stereographic projection of the 16-cell and 24-cell polytopes out of hula hoops: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0rFECk-uRg http://reperiendi.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/hooped-up-24-cell/ My brother and I made this image from the famous "Powers of 10" video: http://reperiendi.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/powers-of-10/ Can you figure out how? -- Mike Stay - metaweta@gmail.com http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~mike http://reperiendi.wordpress.com