OCA:Pedestrian Life

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Pedestrian Life
x=0, y = 0, rule = B38/S23 ! #C [[ THEME Inverse ]] #C [[ RANDOMIZE2 RANDSEED 1729 THUMBLAUNCH THUMBNAIL THUMBSIZE 2 GRID ZOOM 6 WIDTH 600 HEIGHT 600 LABEL 90 -20 2 "#G" AUTOSTART PAUSE 2 GPS 8 LOOP 256 ]]
LifeViewer-generated pseudorandom soup
Rulestring 23/38
B38/S23
Character Chaotic

Pedestrian Life is a Life-like cellular automaton in which cells survive from one generation to the next if they have 2 or 3 neighbours, and are born if they have 3 or 8 neighbours.

Patterns

Many patterns from regular Life are compatible with this rule. However, traffic lights are much less common, as most predecessors tend to die, giving the rule its name.[1]

There are several natural patterns of interest. One is a statorless, rotating period-106 glider gun:

The rotating p106 gun.
View animated image.
RLE: here
Catagoluehere

The second is a family of naturally occurring (5,2)c/190 knightships, using mechanisms meshed together similarly to switch engines:

There are at least 692 variants of these in the simplest form of two engines,[2] and many more such as one which deletes and recreates a blinker, resulting in a period of 380.[3] Many similar technologies result in puffers, rakes and the like.

A third is a (101,3)c/1884 puffer.[4] Due to its massive ash trails no spaceships have been derived from it.

Universality

It's Turing-completeness was mentioned in a poor quality article[5], but it is baloney in this aspect, because didn't list the necessary patterns and reactions inherited from Conway's Game of Life for creating any kind of patterns that proves universality, just mentioning their existence. The same applies to HoneyLife and EightLife; the latter rule has a constructive proof for its Turing-completeness.

There is a proof sketch of Pedestrian Life's universality. It is on conwaylife forums[6], which contains a proof-scheme covering all rules that support glider and their rulestring matches B3[678]*/S23[678]*.

References

  1. Tropylium (April 9, 2013). "Re: What do you want out of (conway's) life this year?". ConwayLife.com forums. Retrieved on June 24, 2016.
  2. David S. Miller (June 24, 2016). "Re: B38/S23". ConwayLife.com forums. Retrieved on October 31, 2016.
  3. Apple Bottom (October 27, 2016). "Re: Soup search results in rules other than Conway's Life". ConwayLife.com forums. Retrieved on October 31, 2016.
  4. Adam P. Goucher (November 9, 2016). "Re: Soup search results in rules other than Conway's Life". ConwayLife.com forums. Retrieved on November 19, 2016.
  5. http://repositorio.uam.es/bitstream/handle/10486/664759/fine_soler_JGPS_2013_ampl.pdf?sequence=2
  6. "List of the Turing-complete totalistic life-like CA".

External links

Pedestrian Life at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue Pedestrian Life at David Eppstein's Glider Database