One of my early LIFE implementations.
I think I implemented this on almost every computer I owned, I remember writing my first version in Basic on my PET-2001.
Now available on github.
summary of results for various line lengths
- 1 : death in 1
- 2 : death in 1
- 3 : flipflop, period 2
- 4 : beehive in 2
- 5 : 4 flipflops in 6
- 6 : death in 12
- 7 : 4 beehives in 14
- 8 : 4 blocks + 4 beehives in 48
- 9 : 8 flipflops in 20
- 10 : oscilator period 15, in 2
- 11 : 2 flipflops in 15
- 12 : 2 beehives in 15
- 13 : 2 flipflops in 24
- 14 : death in 28
- 15 : death in 40
- 16 : 8 flipflops in 32
- 17 : 4 blocks in 24
- 18 : death in 20
- 19 : death in 24
- 20 : 2 blocks in 20
- 21 : 2 flipflops in 19
- 22 : 4 blocks in 35
- 23 : death in 30
- 24 : death in 28
- 25 : 4 blocks, 4 flipflops, 4 ??? in 93
- 26 : 2 beehives in 24
- 27 : 2 beehives, 4 ??? in 28
- 28 : 4 blocks in 33
- 29 : 12 blocks, 2 flipflops in 36
- 30 : 4 beehives, 8 flipflops in 103
- 31 : 2 beehives, 4 flipflops in 148
- 32 : 12 beehives in 60
- 33 : big: stable after about 580 generations
- 34 : 4 blocks, 8 ??? in 42
- 35 : 12 blocks in 57
- 36 : 6 blocks, 4 squares in 91
- 37 : 2 flipflops in 106
- 38 :
Note that the ‘barcod’ program did not have anything to do with LIFE, I think it was an attempt to reverse engineer the codes printed on some parking garage’s tickets.
