<story><title>Build a digital clock in Conway&apos;s Life</title><url>http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/88783/build-a-digital-clock-in-conways-game-of-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>I went through a period of intense study of cellular automata. It it a deep, deep, rabbit hole of interesting bits. One of the things I contributed early was a simple &amp;#x27;two species&amp;#x27; variation where the rules for dual species were encoded in three matrices. I used it as a demo on one of the Fred Fish Amiga disks (it used pretty much every Intuition window call in the book on purpose).&lt;p&gt;The clock has me thinking I need to get out my FPGA based simulator again and to hook it up to a nice 720P display :-).</text></item><item><author>jonknee</author><text>Digging throught the Conway&amp;#x27;s Life rabbit hole is a fun trip back to what the WWW used to be like:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ics.uci.edu&amp;#x2F;~eppstein&amp;#x2F;ca&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ics.uci.edu&amp;#x2F;~eppstein&amp;#x2F;ca&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.math.cornell.edu&amp;#x2F;~lipa&amp;#x2F;mec&amp;#x2F;lesson6.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.math.cornell.edu&amp;#x2F;~lipa&amp;#x2F;mec&amp;#x2F;lesson6.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;kaytdek.trevorshp.com&amp;#x2F;projects&amp;#x2F;computer&amp;#x2F;neuralNetworks&amp;#x2F;gameOfLife2.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;kaytdek.trevorshp.com&amp;#x2F;projects&amp;#x2F;computer&amp;#x2F;neuralNetwork...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;psoup.math.wisc.edu&amp;#x2F;mcell&amp;#x2F;rullex_life.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;psoup.math.wisc.edu&amp;#x2F;mcell&amp;#x2F;rullex_life.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I love it!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>biot</author><text>If you turned that into into an actual clock with half decent accuracy, I&amp;#x27;d seriously buy one. Even if the only way to set the time was to wait until noon or midnight to plug it in. It would probably also function well as a space heater in winter. :)</text></comment>
<story><title>Build a digital clock in Conway&apos;s Life</title><url>http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/88783/build-a-digital-clock-in-conways-game-of-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>I went through a period of intense study of cellular automata. It it a deep, deep, rabbit hole of interesting bits. One of the things I contributed early was a simple &amp;#x27;two species&amp;#x27; variation where the rules for dual species were encoded in three matrices. I used it as a demo on one of the Fred Fish Amiga disks (it used pretty much every Intuition window call in the book on purpose).&lt;p&gt;The clock has me thinking I need to get out my FPGA based simulator again and to hook it up to a nice 720P display :-).</text></item><item><author>jonknee</author><text>Digging throught the Conway&amp;#x27;s Life rabbit hole is a fun trip back to what the WWW used to be like:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ics.uci.edu&amp;#x2F;~eppstein&amp;#x2F;ca&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ics.uci.edu&amp;#x2F;~eppstein&amp;#x2F;ca&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.math.cornell.edu&amp;#x2F;~lipa&amp;#x2F;mec&amp;#x2F;lesson6.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.math.cornell.edu&amp;#x2F;~lipa&amp;#x2F;mec&amp;#x2F;lesson6.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;kaytdek.trevorshp.com&amp;#x2F;projects&amp;#x2F;computer&amp;#x2F;neuralNetworks&amp;#x2F;gameOfLife2.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;kaytdek.trevorshp.com&amp;#x2F;projects&amp;#x2F;computer&amp;#x2F;neuralNetwork...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;psoup.math.wisc.edu&amp;#x2F;mcell&amp;#x2F;rullex_life.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;psoup.math.wisc.edu&amp;#x2F;mcell&amp;#x2F;rullex_life.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I love it!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jhbadger</author><text>Me too. CAs are fun. But obviously people like Wolfram take them &lt;i&gt;way&lt;/i&gt; too seriously (assuming &amp;quot;A New Kind of Science&amp;quot; was sincere and not just a way to convince hobbyists to buy Mathematica)</text></comment>