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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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Game of Game of Life

Game of Game of Life Conway's Game of Life is a 0-player game. But that's okay! We can make it a multi-player game. This game is played on the smallest square grid that will accommodate a 6x6 ...
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Decrypt the extended Wechsler format

This challenge is based on a sandbox post by user48538. Since he is no longer active on this site, I took over this challenge. apgsearch, the distributed soup search program for Conway's Game of Life ...
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Conway's game of life [duplicate]

Description : Given an array of strings representing a grid of cells With the key : 0 = 'dead cell' 1 = 'live cell' write a function that returns the next ...
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Strategic Vanishers

This post is loosely inspired by this mathoverflow post. A Vanisher is any pattern in Conway's Game of life that completely disappears after one step. For example the following pattern is a size 9 ...
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Change the rules of Life

Life-like cellular automaton are cellular automaton that are similar to Conway's Game of Life, in that they operate on a (theoretically) infinitely large square grid, where each cell has exactly 8 ...
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Conways's Game of Life: Most newborn generating starting pattern

General rules The universe of the Game of Life is an infinite two-dimensional orthogonal grid of square cells, each of which is in one of two possible states, alive or dead. Every cell interacts with ...
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Game of Life and Fatigue

Stewie's Game of Life and Fatigue is quite similar to the more famous Conway's Game of Life. The universe of the Stewie's Game of Life and Fatigue (GoLF) is an infinite two-dimensional orthogonal ...
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Place a glider!

This: is a Glider. In Conway's Game of Life, the glider is a famous pattern that rapidly traverses across the board. For today's challenge, we are going to draw an ASCII art Game of Life Board, and ...
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Display the Hacker Logo

You may have heard of the "Hacker Logo", also called the "Hacker Emblem". It looks like this: This is a pattern from a mathematical simulation called the Game of Life. The glider is the simplest Life ...
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Life: Created or Evolved?

Given the state of a square Game of Life grid, determine whether it could have evolved from any previous state, or could only have been created. That is, identify whether the state is a "Garden of ...
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Game of Life arrowslits

Background This challenge is in honor of apsillers, who won the Not as simple as it looks category in Best of PPCG 2016 with their challenge Can my 4-note music box play that song? Congratulations! ...
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Find a Glider Synthesis (Game of Life)

Challenge Summary In summary, the challenge is to provide the glider synthesis for a Game of Life configuration, which is your input. What does this mean? Well, firstly, let me explain a few terms. ...
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Build a digital clock in Conway's Game of Life

Your task is to build a Game of Life simulation representing a digital clock, which satisfies the following properties: The clock displays the hours and minutes in decimal (e.g. ...
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It's Life, Jim, but not as we know it

You probably know Conway's Game of Life, the famous cellular automaton invented by mathematician John Conway. Life is a set of rules that, together, allow you to simulate a two-dimensional board of ...
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Stable Game of Life

Challenge: Given a matrix (or 2d array) of 0s and 1s, output the number of steps it takes for Conway's game of life to reach a stable state, or -1 if it never reaches one. A stable state is a state ...
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Count common Game of Life patterns

The task here is to read from a Golly .rle or plaintext file (your choice) whose filename is provided (on STDIN or as a command line argument) and identify and ...
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Emulate Rule 110 with Conway's Game of Life (or vice versa) [closed]

Can you find initial conditions for either Rule 110 or Conway's Game of Life to emulate the other? That is, produce output (in any form, not necessarily the familiar pixel grid) which corresponds ...
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Paint a still life (or a moving one) - draw an image in the Game of Life

You are given as input a greyscale image. Your task is to find a static or looping pattern in Conway's Game of Life that resembles the input image as closely as possible. Your output can be either a ...
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Life can be colorful!

Each cell in a life-like cellular automaton only needs one bit to represent it since it can only be alive or dead. That means there are only two colors; pretty boring. Normal images have 24 bits per ...
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Code that runs the Game of Life on itself

Write two rectangular blocks of code, each w characters wide and h characters tall, that implement Conway's Game of Life when arranged in a grid. (w and h may be any positive integers) For example, ...
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Implement the Game of Life on Anything but a Regular Grid

Conway's Game of Life is (almost) always played on a regular square grid, but it doesn't need to be. Write a program that implements the standard cell neighboring rules from Conway's Game of Life on a ...
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Implement the game of life in 3D

The challenge is to find the shortest implementation of the game of life in 3D (example). These are the rules: Cells (in this case, cubes) with only 1 or less neighbours die, as if by lonliness. If ...
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Build a working game of Tetris in Conway's Game of Life

Here is a theoretical question - one that doesn't afford an easy answer in any case, not even the trivial one. In Conway's Game of Life, there exist constructs such as the metapixel which allow the ...
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Longest non-repeating Game-of-Life sequence

Given a positive integer N, determine the starting pattern on a N x N-grid that yield the longest non-repeating sequence under Game of Life-rules, and ends with a fixed pattern (cycle of length 1), ...
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Conway's Hello World

It is often said, that all programmers should be able to write a "hello world" program in any programming language after a few glances on that language (And quicksort after a few more glances). As ...
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Shortest Game of Life

Conway's Game of Life is the classic example of cellular automation. The cells form a square grid and each has two states: alive or dead. On each turn, each cell simultaneously updates according to ...
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