Conway's Game of Life with a message for everyone...
http://golly.sourceforge.net/ticker.gif

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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Conway's Game of Life with a message for everyone...
> http://golly.sourceforge.net/ticker.gif

Aah, hashlife.  My personal favorite is metalife (the game of life implemented
in the game of life!).

 - Ricky

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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Conway's Game of Life with a message for everyone...
> http://golly.sourceforge.net/ticker.gif

The more I look at that...  I mean... Golly.  How do you even start to implement
that?

 - Ricky

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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Conway's Game of Life with a message for everyone...
> http://golly.sourceforge.net/ticker.gif

  Does that use the real rules, or is it just a fake?

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Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Conway's Game of Life with a message for everyone...
>> http://golly.sourceforge.net/ticker.gif
> 
>   Does that use the real rules, or is it just a fake?

I don't know. I expect it's using the real rules, just from the description 
on the link that led there, but I didn't check it or anything. Such a 
situation isn't hard to set up if you're really into conway's. There are 
well-known patterns for setting up repeating emitters and such.

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   "What's wrong? Noodles too hot?"
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Warp wrote:
>   Does that use the real rules, or is it just a fake?

It's real. Here's the description of how the artist did it.

http://tlrobinson.net/blog/2009/02/07/game-of-life-generator/

Along with one that draws pictures.  Basically, you build a glider gun gun, 
then delete out the gliders where you want whitespace. :-)

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   "What's wrong? Noodles too hot?"
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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Along with one that draws pictures.  Basically, you build a glider gun gun, 
> then delete out the gliders where you want whitespace. :-)

  So basically you have a construct which produces gliders at certain
intervals, and another which eats them at certain intervals, and it's
only a question of aligning and synchronizing them properly in order to
get any specified combination of gliders moving to the left?

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Warp wrote:
>   So basically you have a construct which produces gliders at certain
> intervals, and another which eats them at certain intervals, and it's
> only a question of aligning and synchronizing them properly in order to
> get any specified combination of gliders moving to the left?

Essentially.

I think it's more like you have a construct that will reflect a glider, and 
one that will reflect a glider while duplicating it at 90 degrees. You like 
up a bunch of these on a diagonal, and put in the pattern of gliders that 
represents the horizontal rows.

So each diagonal thing has a pattern of gliders circling back and forth. 
Each time a glider gets to the bottom of it (for the reddit alien) it gets 
duplicated heading left. Make the diagonals, synchronize it, and you get 
whatever pattern of dots you put in.

I'm not sure where the "eating" part of your description fits in. It's more 
a reflection at the end that's not making the picture, and a duplication at 
the end that is.


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   "What's wrong? Noodles too hot?"
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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> I'm not sure where the "eating" part of your description fits in.

  I assumed it from your description: "Basically, you build a glider gun gun,
then delete out the gliders where you want whitespace."

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Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> I'm not sure where the "eating" part of your description fits in.
> 
>   I assumed it from your description: "Basically, you build a glider gun gun,
> then delete out the gliders where you want whitespace."

I had meant that you make a train of gliders and just erase before you start 
the ones you don't want making pixels.   Which wasn't quite right - I had to 
go and watch the animations again to see what was going on.

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   "Ouch ouch ouch!"
   "What's wrong? Noodles too hot?"
   "No, I have Chopstick Tunnel Syndrome."

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