Smooth life

[s31415]

Hi,

Not really a topic about fractals, but there is an interesting continuous version of Conway's game of life. You can see many videos here:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL69EDA11384365494
including 3d versions.

A program can be downloaded here (I haven't tried it yet):
http://sourceforge.net/projects/smoothlife/
and the paper explaining what's going on is here:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.1567

This video is the cutest:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/KJe9H6qS82I&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/v/KJe9H6qS82I&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1</a>

Sam

[Kali]

Very nice... now, this really looks like life... at least at a microscopic level.

[Tglad]

Very cool videos. I wonder if I can use that circular symmetry on my fractal automata... they just have square symmetry at the moment.

example:
<a href="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=36951270&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=01AAEA" target="_blank">http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=36951270&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=01AAEA</a>