Hey folk!
I am very interested in Conway's game of life..
I have a question since 2 weeks; I hope you can answer me:
Was a pattern like the meta pixel (http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/OTCA_metapixel) created by someone, or found randomly?!
I mean, it is possible to create a random map, that contains this metapixel?
How did 'Brice Due' found this?!
I thank you in advance;
3r0rXx
A very important question
Re: A very important question
It's not a finding it's very complex construction. You don't play randomly with GOL and find something like this, you combine known components together (which usually found by some search utility), into pretty complex mechanism.3r0rXx wrote:How did 'Brice Due' found this?!
No. Maybe after something like 10^10^10^10000 years of random search you might get metapixel. I don't know what you call "random map", but it's really doesn't matter - there is nothing random about metapixel, as there is nothing random about Intel processor.3r0rXx wrote:I mean, it is possible to create a random map, that contains this metapixel?
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Hahahahah thank you..
But why does the conwaywiki calls these patterns a discovery?
Should it not called 'designed'?
And what's about the 'gosper's glider gun' or about the http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/274P6H1V0 -pattern?
I am sorry for these question but it's pretty interesting how these patterns got found.
I thank you in advance;
3r0rXx
Post scriptum:
Find the search utilities a pattern in a random map?
But why does the conwaywiki calls these patterns a discovery?
Should it not called 'designed'?
And what's about the 'gosper's glider gun' or about the http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/274P6H1V0 -pattern?
I am sorry for these question but it's pretty interesting how these patterns got found.
I thank you in advance;
3r0rXx
Post scriptum:
Find the search utilities a pattern in a random map?
Re: A very important question
It's called discovery just as standard terminology for all patterns. In the wiki text itself it's called construction:3r0rXx wrote:why does the conwaywiki calls these patterns a discovery?
The OTCA metapixel...was constructed by Brice Due.
Queen bee was found in random soup definitely. No one constructed it. But placing the block to stabilize it, and as glider gun concerned placing two Queen bee shuttles next to each other to stabilize each other and produce a gun, it's definitely a construction - or at least found by search utility that artificially placed those two together (so design as well).3r0rXx wrote:what's about the 'gosper's glider gun'
But this kind of design is not "high level design" like in case of metapixel or gemini, it's more search utility design. You search inside a large space of basic components something you're interested in.
It was found by search utility like gfind or WinLifeSearch.3r0rXx wrote:or about the http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/274P6H1V0 -pattern?
I didn't understand your question. If you're asking what was found by search utility that came out of random soups, check out this thread: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=16303r0rXx wrote:Find the search utilities a pattern in a random map?