Making Conway's Game of Life Playable
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The post explores making Conway's Game of Life interactive, and the discussion touches on the concept of 'zero player game' and related historical projects.
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orionblastar
2 months ago
Michael David Crawford was working on Warp Life that would do that, but he died before he could finish it.
shevis
2 months ago
I always thought it was a bit silly to refer to it as a “zero player game“.
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