Looking Outwards 06 – ssontag – Conway’s Game of Life

The other day my friend was telling me about Conway’s Game of Life, it is a celluar autmaton and was created by mathematician John Horton. This i a pseudo random program that uses a set of rules to create a different situation based on the starting position determined by the user. As soon as the starting condition is determined, the rules play out. The program will run as long as none of the shapes die. They die if they are completely surrounded and cannot grow based on the rules. I appreciate this a lot because it was not originally created to be art, but since it’s creation many people have analyzed the rules and created some very graphically interesting animations.

Here is an example called Gosper’s glider gun.