Questions tagged [game-of-life]
for challenges involving John Conway's Game of Life.
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Find the rule of a cellular automaton
There are already many challenges where you are given a cellular automaton rule and an initial state and you have to find the state after a certain number of steps. This challenge is the opposite: you ...
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Reverse Conway's Game of Life
Conway's Game of Life is a cellular automaton "played" on an infinite grid, filled with cells that are either alive or dead. Once given an initial state, the board evolves indefinitely ...
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Custom Games of Life
There's a lot of questions about Conway's Game of Life, but nothing about customization (Related: 2-Player Life). Given an input, determine the result on a 100x100 grid after some iterations. The ...
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Live a longer life
Conways' Game of Life is a well known cellular automaton "played" on an infinite grid, filled with cells that are either alive or dead. Once given an initial state, the board evolves ...
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Maximum population of a \$n \times n\$ still life in Conway's Game of Life
This is OEIS sequence A055397.
In Conway's Game of life, a still life is a pattern that does not change over time. We can see from the rules of Conway's Game of life that, a pattern is a still life if ...
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Calculate the highest possible period oscillator in Conway's Game of Life
Input: a whole positive number greater than 4
Output: A whole positive number that describes the highest possible period an oscillator could have inside a square space of size (input)x(input) in a &...
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Golf Conway's Primordial Still-Life
Background
Note: This configuration was co-found by one of our fellow code golf enthusiasts, Zgarb
A 29 year old conjecture by John Conway about the Game of Life was recently solved.
To quote Conway ...
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AoCG2021 Leftover: HexaGoL
This challenge is one of the two challenges which were planned for Advent of Code Golf 2021, but didn't fit into the 25-day schedule.
Related to AoC2020 Day 24, Part 2.
Given a binary configuration ...
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Game of Life, but on a 4-8-8 tiling
Background
The 4-8-8 tiling looks like this:
For the purpose of this challenge, we take the orientation of the tiling as exactly shown above. In plain English words, we take the tiling so that it can ...
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Leave a wake of dead cells behind you
Conway's Game of Life is a well known cellular automaton "played" on an infinite grid, filled with cells that are either alive or dead. Once given an initial state, the board evolves ...
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Two Diehards Make a Glider
In Conway's Game of Life, there is an infinite square grid of cells, each of which is alive or dead. The pattern changes each "generation". A dead cell with exactly 3 live neighbors (...
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Keep PPCG running in Game of Life
Conways' Game of Life is a well known cellular automaton "played" on an infinite grid, filled with cells that are either alive or dead. Once given an initial state, the board evolves ...
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Minimally destroy CGCC in Game of Life
Inspiration
Conway's Game of Life is a well known cellular automaton "played" on an infinite grid, filled with cells that are either alive or dead. Once given an initial state, the board ...
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Is it a still-life?
The Problem:
You receive a (section of) a Conway's Game of Life grid. Your task is to output whether it represents a still-life (subsequent generations are identical to the current grid), a ...
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Conway's Game of Points!
Rest in peace, John Horton Conway
There are a ton of different Game of Life interpreters out there! A ton!
Currently for you, getting an interpreter is just a dozen types and a couple of clicks away.
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