The Game of Life (aka Life) can best be described as a cellular automaton created by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970.
Essentially, it is a zero-player game, meaning that its very evolution is determined by an initial state, requiring no further input. Simply put, an individual interacts with the Game of Life by creating an initial configuration and observing how it evolves.
The game made its first public appearance in the October 1970 issue of Scientific American, having been featured in Martin Gardner’s “Mathematical Games” column.
As Wikipedia notes, the game is rather interesting from a theoretical point of view, as it has the power of a universal Turing machine, namely anything that can be computed algorithmically can be computed within Conway’s Game of Life.
Recently, a YouTube user by the name of Remco Veldkamp published a video showcasing his Game-themed DIY Arduino project in a post titled “Repeating Game of Life pattern on 8×8 bicolor LED matrix.” We think the project is pretty sweet indeed and are especially glad to see the Maker Movement paying homage to Conway and his cellular automaton.
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