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Lifeline #5 is on the way. The process might be shortened with a project where contributors register themselves for limited tasks and publish every step on subpages : *scan a magazine *OCR and check text *create images *check work and edit wiki page *list the above as - ** #1, 2, 3, 4 - published **...

Thank you, things are getting in place ... Herschel : commonly ascribed to an heptomino similar to a planetary symbol (should be Huyghens o-) Agar : this looks like a trope, specifically a synecdoche, where the grown pattern is equated to its nourishing space. Unless someone proves that something ca...

It looks like the hardware is the easiest part. Students have tried with building windows at night. One could try with cars lights in an outdoor movie theater, or just people standing/sitting. What you can have with arduino, connecting things and ideas, is fascinating. Tried pachube ?

Most common patterns bear the name you would give to a newborm pattern - it has looks, it has a father, it has siblings. What I want to find is the origin of some terms as Herschel, agar as they do not, for me, seem so natural. Am I the only one ? Is there an obscure history that someone could put i...

Thank you Dave, I found the old lovely text here : http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~rlr/icpsr03/Handouts/Old/xlife-man.txt Xlife(6) Xlife(6) NAME Xlife - Conway's Game of Life, for X SYNTAX xlife [-geometry string] [initial pattern file] DESCRIPTION ... ... In fact it is the same text as the wapedia.pl th...

the name was just 'life' I'd say.

In his Lifeline newsletter #3 & #4, M. Wainwright introduced two measures for methuselahs, F.I.P. ratio (final to initial population) and EF, ratio of age to initial pop (evolutionary factor). Do they seem fit to draw correct comparisons ? Checking their FIP and EF today, I'm not sure our records ar...

Thank you all! I wonder if I should post about research sociology here - find my apologies.

I played Life on an old Solaris in the 90's. Can't find the Unix man page for it on the net. Did it exist ? Any idea ?
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- - update - - It was certainly a Sun Os but not Solaris. The catch phrase is still common - no manual for life.

I wonder what remains from the origins. The game of Life was devised to help research in logic and simulation. It has been said that hard science - every science dealing with growth and emergence, astronomy, biology, or just physics with forest fires, &c. - would or could use its learnings. My quest...