in fact, Life Without Death (i.e. Life but where nothing ever turns off) is a pretty fun CA rule, which can do a fair amount of computation: http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~moore/pubs/griff.html - cris
On May 10, 2020, at 12:30 PM, Tom Karzes <karzes@sonic.net> wrote:
Well, you need *some* rule that kills off cells. Otherwise once a cell becomes live it remains live forever, so there would be no motion (e.g. gliders), only spreading.
Tom
Henry Baker writes:
According to wikipedia,
"3. Any live cell with more than three live neighbors dies, as if by overpopulation."
In retrospect, this appears to be a "social distancing" rule.
In various generalizations of "Life" -- e.g., with different sets of rules, on different grid patterns -- e.g., hex, etc. -- are there other interesting versions of "Life" with (and without) "social distancing" rules?
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