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kleinbl00 · 3187 days ago · link · · parent · post: Conwaylife.com: zdr: is this c/10 spaceship known?
Conway's Life is storied as fuck. It's one of the easiest, earliest and gnarliest screensavers, for starters. If I recall correctly the parameters aren't messed with much but initial conditions matter a lot. I used to have a screen saver (talkin' Win95 era) that was loosely based on Conway's life, but allowed for bilateral and radial symmetry as well as four different block designs - offensive, defensive, locomotive and photosynthetic. It was super-cool to let run for a day or two because you got rudimentary predator-prey relationships in not too many thousands of evolutionary cycles.