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'''Lifeline''' was a newsletter for "enthusiasts of [[John Horton Conway]]'s [[game of Life]]". It was issued quarterly for twelwe numbers, the first being in March 1971.
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The editor and publisher was [[Robert T. Wainwright]]. The text was typewritten and the sheets were stapled together.
|The setup for the whole <br> Lifeline issues data <br> is a work in progress. <br> You can help [[Lifeline/project|HERE]]<br>
 
Thank you!
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'''Lifeline''' was a newsletter for "enthusiasts of [[John Horton Conway]]'s [[game of Life]]", first edited and published by [[Robert Wainwright]]. It was published quarterly, the first issue being in March 1971, and ran for twelve issues. The original newsletter was typewritten and the sheets were stapled together.
The newsletter itself followed an enthusiastic response to Martin Gardner's column in ''Scientific American'' (October 1970).


== Summary of the issues ==
== Summary of the issues ==


=== [[Lifeline Volume 1|Number 1]] -=- MARCH 1971 ===
=== [[Lifeline Volume 1|Volume 1]] MARCH 1971 ===
8 pages
8 pages
*N-ominoes ([[Polyominos|Polyomino]])
*N-ominoes ([[Polyomino]])
*A classification system for Life '[[Pattern|Objects]]'
*A classification system for Life '[[Pattern|Objects]]'
*Colliding spaceships
*Colliding spaceships
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*Known Class V (''Unstable, predictable'') object Life histories
*Known Class V (''Unstable, predictable'') object Life histories


 
=== [[Lifeline Volume 2|Volume 2]] JUNE 1971 ===
=== [[Lifeline Volume 2|Number 2]] -=- JUNE 1971 ===
18 pages
18 pages
*Fates of the last four unknown heptominoes  
*Fates of the last four unknown heptominoes  
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*A comprehensive file of information generated by life experimenters
*A comprehensive file of information generated by life experimenters
*''Boltwood'''s Life program in FORTRAN
*''Boltwood'''s Life program in FORTRAN
=== [[Lifeline Volume 3|Volume 3]] SEPTEMBER 1971 ===
32 pages
*Smallest [[still life]] objects : 4 to 9 cells
*The variety of flip-flop symmetry
*[[Shuttle]]s, [[Flotilla|flottillae]], [[glider gun]]s, [[puffer train]]s
*The Breeder (photographed on page 1)
*[[Methuselah]]s' census
*Spaceship factories
*[[Acorn]] data - generations, contents of the final population ('oak tree')
'''[[Wick]]s and [[agar]]s'''
*A classification system for 'wicks' (one-dimensionally infinite objects)
*Illusion of motion' (IoM)
*A summary of [[fuse]]s
*A classification system for 'agars' (two-dimensionally infinite objects)
*The smallest area that should contain a [[Garden of Eden]] (GoE) pattern
*Coming events
=== [[Lifeline Volume 4|Volume 4]] DECEMBER 1971 ===
12 pages
*Publisher R. T. Wainwright willing to be an antecessor
*The incredible '[[Switch engine]]'
*Diagonal [[puffer train]]
*Methuselah census
*'Natural pentadec'(athlon)
*Toroidal surface and variations to [[Conway]]'s basic [[rules]]
*Coming events
*Lifefile - ''Thompson's'' codex system for known Life objects
=== [[Lifeline Volume 5|Volume 5]] SEPTEMBER 1972 ===
7 pages
*New discoveries sent in by 'Buckinghams Combine'
*Summary of Conway' Life rules
*HOW TO PLAY LIFE
*Class E, Evolutionaries, Exercises, Et cetera . . .
*Class I, Still Lifes and Stable Forms . . .
*Class II, Oscillators . . .
*Reader Article: The Period 12 'Line·Block' Oscillator by Edward Fitzgerald, David Lawson, and Tad Marshall of Irvington, N.Y.
*Excursions Into Other Universes . . .
*Answers to Reader Exercises
*COMING EVENTS
*RANDOM BITS (Thompson has tracked 19,000+ patterns, 71 different two-glider collisions, ...)
*LIFELINE EDITORIAL BOARD
*LIFE SAVER survey
=== [[Lifeline Volume 6|Volume 6]] OCTOBER 1972 ===
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| style="width:64px; vertical-align: top" | [[Lifeline Volume 6#Page 1|Page 1]] || Two conjectures by JHC: Grandfather Problem and Unique Father Problem
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| style="vertical-align: top" | [[Lifeline Volume 6#Page 2|Page 2]] || Class E, Evolutionaries, Exercises, Et cetera . . . 'LIFEXPLANATIONS' by Peter Raynham <br/>
Reader Briefs ... • Mark Horton on a figure conservatively interacting • Christopher Scussel on the collision of a glider and a lightweight spaceship • Lee H. Skinner on still lifes
|-
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[Lifeline Volume 6#Page 3|Page 3]] || Class II, Oscillators . . . <br/>
Lifeobservation by Glenn Puro regarding a UFO formation <br/>
Reader Reply regarding the 'Line-Block' Oscillator by Harry J. Riley
|-
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[Lifeline Volume 6#Page 4|Page 4]] || Lifecomics by Richard Holmes and Traw <br/>
Excursions Into the Universe of '3-4' Life . . .  <br/>
Lifequote <br/>
Editor's Errors_and Embarrassment . . .
|-
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[Lifeline Volume 6#Page 5|Page 5]] || rowspan="2" | Moore-Myhill criterion for existance of Garden of Eden configurations. (Reader Article by Frank Bernhart)
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| style="vertical-align: top" | [[Lifeline Volume 6#Page 6|Page 6]] ||
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| style="vertical-align: top" | [[Lifeline Volume 6#Page 7|Page 7]] ||
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| style="vertical-align: top" | [[Lifeline Volume 6#Page 8|Page 8]] || Class III, Spaceships and Pure Glider Generators . . . <br/>
Lifequote <br/>
Lifecomic by Michael Moore <br/>
Coming Events
|}
=== [[Lifeline Volume 7|Volume 7]] NOVEMBER 1972 ===
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| style="width:64px; vertical-align: top" | [[Lifeline Volume 7#Page 1|Page 1]] || rowspan="2" | Another challenge by JHC: Immovable object problem and The Irresistible Force Problem. <br/>
Research in Occult Symbology - Part I by Curt Gibson, New York City
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| style="vertical-align: top" | [[:File:Lifeline vol 7 p2.jpg|Page 2]]
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| style="vertical-align: top" | [[:File:Lifeline vol 7 p3.jpg|Page 3]] || Class E, Evolutionaries, Events, Et cetera:<br/>
Lifeobservation by Glenn Puro regarding a UFO formation <br/>
Reader Reply regarding the 'Line-Block' Oscillator by Harry J. Riley
|-
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[:File:Lifeline vol 7 p4.jpg|Page 4]] || More LIFEEXPLAINATIONS by Raynham<br/>Lifequote<br/>Lifecomic by Richard Holmes <br/>reader Article: Fly-by Fuses, a Second Flight by Donald Woods
|-
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[:File:Lifeline vol 7 p5.jpg|Page 5]] || Excursions Into the Universe of '3-4' Life . . .  <br/>
|-
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[:File:Lifeline vol 7 p6.jpg|Page 6]] || Period five wick <br/> Lifecomic by Traw <br/> Regarding the 'Titanic Toroidal Traveler' by W. P. Webb <br/>
|-
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[:File:Lifeline vol 7 p7.jpg|Page 7]] || Observation by Bruce Parrello and David Tetenbaum about a glider and pentadecathlon scenario
|-
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[:File:Lifeline vol 7 p8.jpg|Page 8]] || Regarding the 'Titanic Toroidal Traveler' - continued from page 6 <br/> Reader Briefs: <br/>• Dean Hickerson: billiard table construction <br/>• Editor's Errors and Embarassment <br/>• Mark Horton's 'five' <br/>• Buckingham's 'five' <br/>• Answer to reader query <br/>• Lifecomic by Niemiec <br/>• Coming Events
|}
=== [[Lifeline Volume 8|Volume 8]] DECEMBER 1972 ===
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| style="width:64px; vertical-align: top" | [[Lifeline Volume 8#Page 1|Page 1]] || Recent findings: • new type of puffer train • collisions of gliders and blocks to assemble spaceship guns and logical circuitry for a Life computer <br/>
'Buckinghams Combine' revisited . . .
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| style="vertical-align: top" | [[Lifeline_Volume_8#Page 2|Page 2]] || Class E, Evolutionaries, Exercises, Events, Et cetera . . .<br/>Class I, Still Lifes and Stable Forms . . .<br/>LIFEXPLAINATIONS<br/>Ten-bit Still Lifes<br/>Class II, Oscillators . .
|-
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[Lifeline_Volume_8#Page 3|Page 3]] || rowspan=2 | Progress on the "Life Codex" by Hugh W. Thompson
|-
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[Lifeline_Volume_8#Page 4|Page 4]]
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| style="vertical-align: top" | [[Lifeline_Volume_8#Page 5|Page 5]] || Sample "Life Codex" page <br/> Class II, Oscillators . . . (cont. from page 2) <br/> Reader Briefs . . .
|-
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[:File:Lifeline vol 8 p6.jpg|Page 6]] || SDL company logo <br/> Excursions Into the Universe of '3-4' Life . . .
|-
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[:File:Lifeline vol 8 p7.jpg|Page 7]] || Reregarding the 'Titanic Toroidal Traveler' by David Buckingham <br/> Lifequote <br/> Life saver: Lifeline order form
|-
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[:File:Lifeline vol 8 p8.jpg|Page 8]] || Regarding those 'Titanic Toroidal Travelers' by R. Wm. Gosper, Jr. <br/>Lifecomic by Harry J. Riley <br/> Lifequote by William Feather <br/> Coming Events <br/> back of order form
|}
=== [[Lifeline Volume 9|Volume 9]] MARCH 1973 ===
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=== [[Lifeline Volume 10|Volume 10]] MARCH 1973 ===
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=== [[Lifeline Volume 11|Volume 11]] JUNE 1973 ===
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== Conventions ==
Lifeline uses the following conventions not used in this wiki:
;Θ: stands for "nothing" (defined in [[:File:Lifeline vol 3 p20.jpg|vol 3 page 20]])
;ALD: average linear density (defined in [[Lifeline Volume 3|vol 3]])
==Scans of all Lifeline newsletters==
The [[:Category:Lifeline_issues|Lifeline project]] includes page images of the remaining Lifeline newsletters that have not yet been transcribed into text format.
==External links==
{{LinkLexicon|lex_l.htm#lifeline}}
{{LinkWeisstein|LifeLine.html}}
[[Category:Books and articles]]

Revision as of 12:21, 14 December 2018

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The setup for the whole
Lifeline issues data
is a work in progress.
You can help HERE

Thank you!

Lifeline was a newsletter for "enthusiasts of John Horton Conway's game of Life", first edited and published by Robert Wainwright. It was published quarterly, the first issue being in March 1971, and ran for twelve issues. The original newsletter was typewritten and the sheets were stapled together. The newsletter itself followed an enthusiastic response to Martin Gardner's column in Scientific American (October 1970).

Summary of the issues

Volume 1 MARCH 1971

8 pages

  • N-ominoes (Polyomino)
  • A classification system for Life 'Objects'
  • Colliding spaceships
  • Subclasses of Class II - Oscillators
  • Known Class V (Unstable, predictable) object Life histories

Volume 2 JUNE 1971

18 pages

  • Fates of the last four unknown heptominoes
  • An expanded classification system for finite Life objects
  • Examples for each objects class
  • Coming events
  • A comprehensive file of information generated by life experimenters
  • Boltwood's Life program in FORTRAN


Volume 3 SEPTEMBER 1971

32 pages

Wicks and agars

  • A classification system for 'wicks' (one-dimensionally infinite objects)
  • Illusion of motion' (IoM)
  • A summary of fuses
  • A classification system for 'agars' (two-dimensionally infinite objects)
  • The smallest area that should contain a Garden of Eden (GoE) pattern
  • Coming events


Volume 4 DECEMBER 1971

12 pages

  • Publisher R. T. Wainwright willing to be an antecessor
  • The incredible 'Switch engine'
  • Diagonal puffer train
  • Methuselah census
  • 'Natural pentadec'(athlon)
  • Toroidal surface and variations to Conway's basic rules
  • Coming events
  • Lifefile - Thompson's codex system for known Life objects


Volume 5 SEPTEMBER 1972

7 pages

  • New discoveries sent in by 'Buckinghams Combine'
  • Summary of Conway' Life rules
  • HOW TO PLAY LIFE
  • Class E, Evolutionaries, Exercises, Et cetera . . .
  • Class I, Still Lifes and Stable Forms . . .
  • Class II, Oscillators . . .
  • Reader Article: The Period 12 'Line·Block' Oscillator by Edward Fitzgerald, David Lawson, and Tad Marshall of Irvington, N.Y.
  • Excursions Into Other Universes . . .
  • Answers to Reader Exercises
  • COMING EVENTS
  • RANDOM BITS (Thompson has tracked 19,000+ patterns, 71 different two-glider collisions, ...)
  • LIFELINE EDITORIAL BOARD
  • LIFE SAVER survey

Volume 6 OCTOBER 1972

Page 1 Two conjectures by JHC: Grandfather Problem and Unique Father Problem
Page 2 Class E, Evolutionaries, Exercises, Et cetera . . . 'LIFEXPLANATIONS' by Peter Raynham

Reader Briefs ... • Mark Horton on a figure conservatively interacting • Christopher Scussel on the collision of a glider and a lightweight spaceship • Lee H. Skinner on still lifes

Page 3 Class II, Oscillators . . .

Lifeobservation by Glenn Puro regarding a UFO formation
Reader Reply regarding the 'Line-Block' Oscillator by Harry J. Riley

Page 4 Lifecomics by Richard Holmes and Traw

Excursions Into the Universe of '3-4' Life . . .
Lifequote
Editor's Errors_and Embarrassment . . .

Page 5 Moore-Myhill criterion for existance of Garden of Eden configurations. (Reader Article by Frank Bernhart)
Page 6
Page 7
Page 8 Class III, Spaceships and Pure Glider Generators . . .

Lifequote
Lifecomic by Michael Moore
Coming Events

Volume 7 NOVEMBER 1972

Page 1 Another challenge by JHC: Immovable object problem and The Irresistible Force Problem.

Research in Occult Symbology - Part I by Curt Gibson, New York City

Page 2
Page 3 Class E, Evolutionaries, Events, Et cetera:

Lifeobservation by Glenn Puro regarding a UFO formation
Reader Reply regarding the 'Line-Block' Oscillator by Harry J. Riley

Page 4 More LIFEEXPLAINATIONS by Raynham
Lifequote
Lifecomic by Richard Holmes
reader Article: Fly-by Fuses, a Second Flight by Donald Woods
Page 5 Excursions Into the Universe of '3-4' Life . . .
Page 6 Period five wick
Lifecomic by Traw
Regarding the 'Titanic Toroidal Traveler' by W. P. Webb
Page 7 Observation by Bruce Parrello and David Tetenbaum about a glider and pentadecathlon scenario
Page 8 Regarding the 'Titanic Toroidal Traveler' - continued from page 6
Reader Briefs:
• Dean Hickerson: billiard table construction
• Editor's Errors and Embarassment
• Mark Horton's 'five'
• Buckingham's 'five'
• Answer to reader query
• Lifecomic by Niemiec
• Coming Events

Volume 8 DECEMBER 1972

Page 1 Recent findings: • new type of puffer train • collisions of gliders and blocks to assemble spaceship guns and logical circuitry for a Life computer

'Buckinghams Combine' revisited . . .

Page 2 Class E, Evolutionaries, Exercises, Events, Et cetera . . .
Class I, Still Lifes and Stable Forms . . .
LIFEXPLAINATIONS
Ten-bit Still Lifes
Class II, Oscillators . .
Page 3 Progress on the "Life Codex" by Hugh W. Thompson
Page 4
Page 5 Sample "Life Codex" page
Class II, Oscillators . . . (cont. from page 2)
Reader Briefs . . .
Page 6 SDL company logo
Excursions Into the Universe of '3-4' Life . . .
Page 7 Reregarding the 'Titanic Toroidal Traveler' by David Buckingham
Lifequote
Life saver: Lifeline order form
Page 8 Regarding those 'Titanic Toroidal Travelers' by R. Wm. Gosper, Jr.
Lifecomic by Harry J. Riley
Lifequote by William Feather
Coming Events
back of order form

Volume 9 MARCH 1973

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Page 5
Page 6
Page 7
Page 8

Volume 10 MARCH 1973

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Page 5
Page 6
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Volume 11 JUNE 1973

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Conventions

Lifeline uses the following conventions not used in this wiki:

Θ
stands for "nothing" (defined in vol 3 page 20)
ALD
average linear density (defined in vol 3)

Scans of all Lifeline newsletters

The Lifeline project includes page images of the remaining Lifeline newsletters that have not yet been transcribed into text format.

External links

Template:LinkWeisstein

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