Thanks! I made the original he mentions in the middle of the description: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtJ77qsLrpw. I didn't know how to do the smooth zoom, though; that's his. I took the resulting frames and did a conformal transformation to it in the style of Escher's "Print Gallery": https://reperiendi.wordpress.com/?s=metapixel Another guy made the whole thing loop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6aP9S9rEQk On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 1:59 PM, Brent Meeker <meekerdb@verizon.net> wrote:

NEAT!

Brent

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Hi,

Here is a wonderful video showing an emulation of the game of life, programmed in the game of life. It illustrates well the notion of emulation. In fact the program is supposed to emulate itself, so there is a nice "inception" effect, also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8>

I have to go,

Have a good day,

Bruno

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