Game of life: computer with display

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Scalable programmable computer implemented in Conway's game of life. Running the midpoint algorithm to draw a circle.

Nicolas Loizeau

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Not only is this an amazing feat inside Game of Life, it's also an amazing way to visualize a CPU.

iUUkk

I love these gol implementations.
Always reminds me of how much computing power we have available today as compared to back then, when a single glider took almost a minute to cross the screen ;)

Radonatos

I don't know why this hasn't received more views...

andreasreich

My brain is melting right now this is so fucking wild. Thought at first it was just creating the shape of the CPU, Memory etc then I realized it was actually processing data and writing out to the display.

AntonioDoesMetal

If the game allows for creation, there must be a computer made in it at some point in time. First it was Minecraft, then Terraria, and now this.

back_the_bone

Incredible! I am amazed by your amount of knowledge that is required to reproduce a working computer in gol.

magyarnorbert

I can’t still believe that Conway’s game of life is Turing complete! I mean is incredible how a super basic set of rules of automated cells can be as powerful as any computer if you give it enough memory and data.

ramonemiliochaconperdomo

Please write a book on this! Complete with tutorials and the theory behind it!

StormCrow

The author’s free time and perseverance are enviable.

hate-conductor

this gives me the same feeling as looking up at the stars

patwailes

i would love to just place one pixel somewhere and watch the entire thing devolve into chaos

sawyermerkle

It blows my mind to think that you can build a Turing complete model in this way and that it appears to me to beautifully mimic the signals that are pulsing throughout the cpu, memory, video output and motherboard allowing a person to fully visualize what is truly happening. I think this work is genius and you all may very well have created the model or programming language of the future because of the way this mimics Bits or at some point maybe even the electrons themselves. If you were named after Nikola Tesla I think your mother and father were quite prescient. I feel like this would be analogous to how things would work in an optically based computer where pulses of light replace the electrons or bits. Great Stuff - love to see what you'll come up with next!

Spder

this is very similar to how the first IC computers were designed.. first develop small elements in the silicon, from transistors to flipflops etc, and go larger and larger. Nice to see.

TwoMarlboro