Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has released a kit for a 8-LED module that implements Conway's Life. You can plug larger numbers of modules together to create a large display. I've thought on and off about building a similar design (and even did some prototyping) based on LED matrix displays, so I think this is a very cool project ( Read more... )

I received "Game of Life Cellular Automata" as a Christmas gift, and it was a fun read. (Unfortunately there are some points at which it was poorly edited or produced.) A paper by Emmanuel Sapin, "Gliders and Glider Guns Discovery in Cellular Automata", especially provoked my interest--- particularly because I had undertaken a small-scale effort ( Read more... )

OTCAMP: A Life pattern which simulates any outer-totalistic cellular automata, including Life itself.

Each simulated cell is 2048x2048 cells large. With Golly you can run fairly large-sized patterns... but, it's only feasible to run with the HashLife algorithm, which cheats by memoizing the evolution of Life patterns rather than simulating ( Read more... )

David Eppstein (who is not one of the missing Eppes siblings) announced a new paper on classifying 2-D cellular automata, entitled "Growth and Decay in Life-Like Cellular Automata". (announcement)This is a subject dear (if not near) to my heart. At Gustavus, I took a seminar on "Complexity" from Nobel laureate Philip Anderson, who was there as a ( Read more... )