Game of life cellular automata / Andrew Adamatzky, editor.

Other author Adamatzky, Andrew.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Springer,
Descriptionxix, 579 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Contents Introduction to cellular automata and Conway's game of life / Carter Bays -- Conway's game of life: early personal recollections / Robert Wainwright -- Conway's life / Harold V. McIntosh -- Life's still lifes / Harold V. McIntosh -- A zoo of Life forms / Harold V. McIntosh -- Growth and decay in life-like cellular automata / David Eppstein -- The B36/S125 "2x2" life-like cellular automaton / Nathaniel Johnston -- Object synthesis on Conway's game of life and other cellular automata / Mark D. Niemiec -- Gliders and glider guns discovery in cellular automata / Emmanuel Sapin -- Constraint programming to solve maximal density still life / Geoffrey Chu, Karen Elizabeth Petrie, and Neil Yorke-Smith -- Larger than life's extremes: rigorous results for simplified rules and speculation on the phase boundaries / Kellie Michele Evans -- RealLife / Marcus Pivato -- Variations on the game of life / Ferdinand Peper, Susumu Adachi, and Jia Lee -- Does Life resist asynchrony? / Nazim Fatès -- LIFE with short-term memory / Ramón Alonso-Sanz -- Localization dynamics in a binary two-dimensional cellular automaton: the diffusion rule / Genaro J. Martínez, Anderw Adamatzky, and Harold V. McIntosh -- The game of life in non-square environments / Carter Bays -- The game of life rules on Penrose Tilings: still life and oscillators / Nick Owens and Susan Stepney -- A spherical XOR gate implemented in the game of life / Jeffrey Ventrella -- Emergent complexity in Conway's game of life / Nick Gotts -- Macroscopic spatial complexity of the game of life cellular automaton: a simple data analysis / A.R. Hernández-Montoya, H.F. Coronel-Brizio -- The enlightened game of life / Claudio Conti -- Towards a quantum game of life / Adrian P. Flitney and Derek Abbott -- Game of life music / Eduardo R. Miranda and Alexis Kirke -- Universal computation and construction in GoL cellular automata / Adam P. Goucher -- A simple universal Turing machine for the Game of Life Turing machine / Paul Rendell -- Computation with competing patterns in life-like automaton / Genaro J. Martínez, Andrew Adamatzky, Kenichi Morita, and Maurice Margenstern.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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