SMOOTHLIFE & ETC

A year ago, Stephan Rafler from Germany published a paper about the continuous generalization of Conway’s Game of Life:

Actually, it’s more of an approach rather than a strict set of rules; so, there is enough space for experiments. Among other types of such systems’ behaviour, gliders, tubes and some kind of carousels were discovered. A lot of videos of various simulations can be found at the author’s youtube-channel, and the emulation software itself is available there (including the sources).

In addition:

• Conway’s Life automata producing prime numbers,
• Indie-game Conway’s Inferno (some sadistic analogue of minesweeper),
• Turing’s Machine built with Lego and javascript Turing Machine in 79 bytes (+some addtional information about it).