focus for this week: Why don't birds fly backwards ?
>1.1 mio views (popular pages, total: 2,030)
Conway's Game of Life
en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life English Wikiversity] on 19th March 2010.
Contributors until then can be found here.
The content of this page is under following licence (same as on English Wikiversity):
Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License;
additional terms may apply. See Terms of Use for details.//en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life English Wikiversity] on 19th March 2010.
Contributors until then can be found here.
The content of this page is under following licence (same as on English Wikiversity):
Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License;
additional terms may apply. See Terms of Use for details.
www.skilledtests.com/wiki/index.php5?title=Conway's_Game_of_Life&action=historysubmit&diff=2424&oldid=2404 this].</font>//www.skilledtests.com/wiki/index.php5?title=Conway's_Game_of_Life&action=historysubmit&diff=2424&oldid=2404 this].</font>
In this learning project we explore Conway's Game of Life. The game involves an (infinite) two-dimensional grid with black and white squares, which may be represented as 1 and 0. One may think of them as "life cells" or "dead cells". The grid evolves. The evolution rule is as follows:
- All cells evolve simultaneously
- Each cell has eight neighbours
- An alive cell with two or three neighbours continues to live. Otherwise it dies.
- A dead cell with exactly three neighbours will become alive.
The game of Life is a prototypical example of a w:cellular automaton, an automatic machine of cells. It has attracted interests of researchers in diverse fields. Conway's game of Life is a w:universal Turing machine.
Try your hands
You may try your hand on the following (finite!) 10x10 toroidal model of the game of Life by: www.skilledtests.com/wiki/index.php5?title=Conway%27s_Game_of_Life&action=edit edit]" button on the top of the page and//www.skilledtests.com/wiki/index.php5?title=Conway%27s_Game_of_Life&action=edit edit]" button on the top of the page and
- then just the "Save page" button below the editing window.
www.skilledtests.com/wiki/index.php5?title=Conway's_Game_of_Life&action=purge purging it] or editing it again. )//www.skilledtests.com/wiki/index.php5?title=Conway's_Game_of_Life&action=purge purging it] or editing it again. )
it may look like this after saving
Sandbox
{{subst:Game of Life
|0|0|1|1|0|0|0|0|0|0
|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0
|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0
|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0
|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0
|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0
|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0
|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0
|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0
|0|0|1|1|0|0|0|0|0|0
}}
See also
www.conwaylife.com/wiki/ LifeWiki]//www.conwaylife.com/wiki/ LifeWiki]
