Life Ink Blot
7:58pm, 4th August 2003
Life, the cellular automaton (as opposed to Life, the thing that people who think Life, the cellular automaton, is great don’t have), is great. If you’ve never heard of it, have some links:
- Google search → Should return lots of relevant results.
- Life in a Java applet → Excellent implementation with good examples.
Load up that applet, open the (astonishing) Spacefiller pattern, change the rules to “Amazing” and click Go. You might get something that looks like this:
What do you see?
Aside from looking good, it’s a cool inkblot type picture. Do you see a maze? Or something else? The three people I’ve shown so far all saw the same thing. Hint: Obi-wan never told you about him.
