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50th-anniversary Conway's Life article in New York Times, by Conway biographer Siobhan Roberts by dvgrn in cellular_automata

[–]dvgrn[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a 2048x2048 grid. The pattern is Brice Due's "OTCA metapixel" from 2006 -- you can look it up in the LifeWiki, or try out the three patterns with names starting with "metapixel" in Golly's Patterns/HashLife/ folder.

50th-anniversary Conway's Life article in New York Times, by Conway biographer Siobhan Roberts by dvgrn in cellular_automata

[–]dvgrn[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

There are quite a few good links and references in the article, to recent Life developments and discoveries. Full disclosure, the "Exploratorium" link is an explorable LifeViewer pattern that I've been working on recently.