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That's probably the most important pattern found in Conway's Game since the glider or the first puffer. Even the first adder was just "yeah, we knew it could be done". There are even ALUs made in it, ...

John Conway passed away this week. Even if you don’t know much about mathematics, you will probably know nearly everyone’s favorite cellular automata ruleset: Conway’s “Game of Life”. It’s so much a ...

We see a lot of projects related to Conway’s Game of Life, but this one is Hasbro’s Game of Life. The board game company recently commissioned a giant game spinner as part of a museum exhibit. Here’s ...

A long-standing mystery about repeating patterns in a two-dimensional mathematical game has been solved after more than 50 years with the discovery of two final pieces in the puzzle. The result is ...

David Hamp-Gonsalves has taken Conway’s Game of Life and added an intriguing twist by introducing a circadian rhythm. As Hackaday reported, the evolution of the game is now influenced by the amount of ...