I recall someone telling me about your compressed Life work back in the 1980's (??), and I thought it was extremely cool, but I haven't kept up with it. Do you have a recent link? BTW, with the advent of the "holographic universe" (wherein the details of the physics within a volume are encoded in the surface of that volume), is there a "holographic Life" ? At 05:04 AM 5/24/2012, you wrote:

Also compare the growth over time of Golly's memory and save-size running Hickerson's primer, 1st quadrant of Life > Miscellaneous > four primers. --rwg