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"SIMPLE COMPLEXITY. Gemini’s implications extend to the real world. “There’s a fascination with the complexity that is coming out of these incredibly simple rules,” says Susan Stepney, a computer scientist at the University of York, UK, who ran Gemini inside Life, at New Scientist‘s behest. “Eventually that leads on to biology, putting simple atoms together to make complex life.” https://lnkd.in/d-ckTpQ View in LinkedIn

SMALL GENERATING HUGE. "A year before Conway's paper, Konrad Zuse - a german computer scientist - created Digital Physics where he suggests that the universe could be discrete (finite and fundamentally composed only of finite numbers) and the output of a huge cellular automaton!" https://lnkd.in/d3B2FKW View in LinkedIn

SIMPLICITY GENERATES COMPLEXITY. "A first for the game, the replicator demonstrates how astounding complexity can arise from simple beginnings and processes – an echo of life’s origins, perhaps." https://lnkd.in/d-ckTpQ View in LinkedIn

EXPANSION TO 3D. "But let us expand the two-dimensional hexagonal grid into three dimensions...Conway's entire universe, or an infinite number of parallel universes, can be contained with time-space barriers." https://lnkd.in/dN_g3Fs View in LinkedIn

GROUND-BREAKING. "When Wade posted his self-replicating mathematical organism on a Life community website on 18 May, it sparked a wave of excitement. “This is truly ground-breaking work,” wrote a fellow Life enthusiast, Adam Goucher, on the website Game of Life News. “In fact, this is arguably the single most impressive and important pattern ever devised.” https://lnkd.in/d-ckTpQ View in LinkedIn

GEMINI STATS VS LIFE. "And it replicates in only 34 million generations?! The best estimate so far for a typical UCC-based Life replicator was 10^18 generations. I see that you have removed all but the bare minimum -- that is probably the simplest possible self-replicator, and very elegant, too. Well, congratulations -- you have single-handedly beaten the collaborative effort between myself, Dave Greene and Paul Chapman to realise a Life replicator." https://lnkd.in/dpf5iAu View in LinkedIn

GEMINI. "On May 18, 2010, Andrew J. Wade announced a self-constructing pattern dubbed Gemini which creates a copy of itself while destroying its parent. This pattern replicates in 34 million generations, and uses an instruction tape made of gliders which oscillate between two stable configurations made of Chapman-Greene construction arms. These, in turn, create new copies of the pattern, and destroy the previous copy." https://lnkd.in/dzs-Kxk View in LinkedIn

LESS TIME THAN EVOLUTION. "Billions and billions of iterations of Conway's life have been played in the past three decades, even hosting competitions to generate familiar patterns like spaceships." https://lnkd.in/d8s-JuN View in LinkedIn

FIRST COMPLETE REPLICATOR. "The Game of Life was used to create the first self-constructing scheme. It creates a copy of itself while destructing its parent. And finally in 2013 Dave Greene created the first complete replicator containing its own instructions to replicate! Forty-three years after Conway's publication!" https://lnkd.in/d3B2FKW View in LinkedIn

THE HOPE. "First replicating creature spawned in life simulator. If you found a self-replicating organism living inside your computer, your first instinct might be to reach for the antivirus software. If, however, you are Andrew Wade, an avid player in the two-dimensional, mathematical universe known as the Game of Life, such a discovery is nothing short of an epiphany." (2010)." https://lnkd.in/d-ckTpQ View in LinkedIn