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Mumbo Jumbo: the redstone is actually pretty simple. The redstone:

It's actually hard to believe John Conway is now dead from the coronavirus, it's a big loss for people in the math community. Rest in peace man.

They literally built a spaceship factory...

Such a simple rules can create these wonderful almost alive structures imagine what 3 dimensional molecular chemistry could do in about 4 billion years. This comment for example ;)

"That's a pretty good animation. What did you use to make it?" "Conway's game of life"

Meanwhile in the video all the cells denying they're in a simulation.

Hand sanitizer: *kills 99% of germs* The remaining 1%:

I'm studying computer science at university, and our prof. showed this video in his lecture (ofc he gave credits to this video). It's amazing to see how all of this is based on simple logic, aswell as Mandelbrot fractal geometries! It's somehow inspirational isn't it?

I like how at some points it seems perfectly organized and harmonious, whereas other times it’s a complete war zone.

I love the fact that even though this video is 9 years old, he still hearts some comments from a few months ago. Truly amazing.

What's really interesting about this project is, its rules also work in a 3D dimension. I was sure it doesn't but then I remade it in unity 3d and it WORKED!!!

Nine years and this video still fascinates me as if it's the first time I'm seeing it.

Combined with that music, it looks like evil, soul-less factories preparing for war.

Imagine accidentally putting a block in a spot without noticing and it just ruins everything

It really can't be a 2011 video without Requiem for a Dream as its soundtrack. Anyways praise to the almighty algorithm God for letting me discover this gem!

A very nice aspect is that the gamne of life literally shows us how several molecular components with simple functions can produce complexer forms which have complexer functions. Life MUST be everywhere in the Galaxy.

1:10 me and my bro running to the ice cream truck

1:13 2 glider salvo 1:21 Gosper glider gun 1:36 Two GGGs 1:45 One-dimensional glider stream 1:55 P416 60P5H2V0 gun 2:26 Turing machine 2:56 Day & Night 3:02 Spacefiller that's nowhere close to the other spacefillers... 3:09 Glider loops 3:14 3-engine Cordership gun and eater 3:16 Spacefiller being destroyed 3:18 LWSS gun 3:27 6-engine Cordership gun 3:53 MWSS gun 3:58 Golly ticker 4:05 Seeds 4:20 Spacefiller destruction, again 4:28 Spacefiller 4:33 Cambrian Explosion 4:39 Sawtooth 4:45 LWSS gun 4:52 Cambrian Explosion again 4:57 Dying spacefiller 5:04 Switch engine breeder 5:10 p34 gun 5:15 Line puffer 5:22 Guns 5:28 c/3 rake 5:35 Puffer 2 5:41 Cordership rake 5:47 p90 rake 5:52 Inline inverter? 5:55 ??? 5:57 2c/5 puffer 6:00 Rakes 6:13 c/5 rake 6:17 Pi ship Whew, what a long list...

I remember watching this nine years ago, and still watching

The people who devised these amazing patterns deserve some credit too.

The Covid-19 pandemic killed many tall trees in every area of ​​the modern world. Today is sad to hear that John Horton Conway, one of the most famous and charismatic mathematicians in the world, died of Covid-19 on April 11, 2020 at home, in New Jersey, USA. , 82 years old.

This got recommend to me after watching Sam Hogan's recent video

This video missed the coolest part of the image at 2:45- that’s a Turing machine! The game of life allows you to build simulated rudimentary computers in it, which is fucking bonkers

For some reason to me many of these look like civilizations making spaceships, and some looks like things on a production line

I didn't know what the title could mean by "epic" but I was not disappointed.

I have *_no_* idea whats going on but it looks awesome..

When you realise someone has made the conways game of life, inside the conways game of life. Makes your head hurt.

I think what is more amazing about the Game of Life, is that it is one of the simplest programs you could write, with just three major rules, and it can create things similar to actual life and even replication. I always wondered if Conway when he first came up with this realized just how amazing his simple math game became.

It's amazing how somehow, the easier a sandbox games mechanics are, the more impressively that people will mold and exploit the possibilities to create something truly breathtaking

it literally looks like they're building and sending out ships in the fourth one

youtube's been recommending me this game of life thing, but this video in particular has given me a huge nostalgia wave of old youtube (because the music of course)

i'm hyperfixated on conway's game of life right now and this was *just* what i needed thank you

4:58 "moooom, i accidently formed a new galaxy"

"So I ask my dad, 'Dad, what is technology?' And he goes... 'IT'S MAGIC, JOEL. IT'S MAGIC.'"

Imagine, real world chemistry is this but three dimensional and with more states and more rules

is no one going to mention just how sick Requiem for a Dream's theme is?

I'd just like to point out what a perfect example this is of how audio can influence our perception of visual content. Imagine if this video had cricket sounds instead of that epic Requiem for a dream soundtrack. It was pretty cool, though.

better than infinity warfare

12 years have passed since this video's creation and it's still just as spectacular as it was back hten. Truly timeless.

The editing here is really good, particularly toward the end. I've been a fan of Conway's Game of Live for decades, and I'm really enjoying these things being put to music in such a dramatic way. Some of these are reminding me of The Tholian Web (Star Trek). It makes me want to see someone make an attempt at a voice over script giving these a more specific story line.

Some masterminds: -that was nice game dudes, let's rematch tomorrow

"Life, ugh, finds a way." - Jeff Goldblum

may the creation of the creator become the inventor such simple laws with such unexpectedly complex outputs, makes you wonder what life in our universe could develop into, rest in peace John Conway

Alt. tittle: "Conway's game of life: Gameplays compilation"

1:56 That freaked me out a little. Maths is creating flying insects now. Makes you think what if everything is the result of one formula repeating over time?

3:15 it looks like bacteria is eating the uniform lines.... What do you see??

How many of you find this video after verituasm uploaded

The brain power of whoever made the "Golly" rolling word printer is op af!

somewhere right now God is watching a computer screen at his basement sipping some semi-cold coffee laughing that holy shit this thing has kept evolving for long

Whoever made the one at 2:12 is a genius lol

I JUST realized this old video was made my Rational Animations! I didn't realize. Banger of a song. Really great new content!

Conways game of life gives me such a Star Trek vibe when I see stuff like this. Sending these great fleets of colonists into the far beyond to land somewhere and grow and expand when they do. As it would given that fundamentally that is the prerogative of life, to expand into all available space and survive there. The black backdrop of the simulation is just the perfect canvas to tell the story.

This got me thinking, what if a supercomputer simulates this long enough (perhaps with a very clever/powerful genetic algorithm or neural network algorithm at play as well), that extremely complex intelligent organisms develop, start to gain curiosity, question their existence, and conduct scientific experiments? Those pixel-creatures would eventually discover the nature of the world they live in, including the four laws as illustrated in the beginning of the video. But they would never be able to figure out what causes their world to exist -- there is no way for them to know about the transistors in the supercomputer which is running them, let alone the humans who built the supercomputer. In that same way, we might one day discover the deepest secrets of the universe, and the grand unified "theory of everything". But if we are in a simulation, or part of a program within a parent universe, there is no way for us to ever understand or detect those things which birthed our universe.

2:13 that's how space invaders are made :P

Had a joint and started watching this, epic watch, loved it all way through

Grammar has a few simple rules, too. It's amazing what you can create by following them.

welcome to the power of axioms and logic.

4:40 - spacecraft sending and receiving information from its home-planet

okay is it weird that i made up a whole story to go along with this 0.o

when you're so good at the game of life, you create a self-sustaining colony that creates a ship that makes a freaking pattern in space. HOW DO PEOPLE DO THIS?!?

...Such simple rules.... ...such complex behaviour...

"The Game of Life" proves that living matter does not necessarily need a "soul" to gain consciousness. All that is needed is an infinite matrix that evolution has bestowed on the living thing over time (which we now call it the central nervous system) and stimuli that will initiate the necessary pattern (which we call "sense" such as light, heat or touch).

The fact that a few simple rules can make THIS chemistry like behavior happen is mind-blowing

A system creating spaceships from gliders, fascinating.

What's really freaky is my Google assistant said this was the 1st thing she ever searched when she was born

4:25 is my favorite part by fat the most satisfying

definition of "well that escalated quickly"

Squares: fight to the death 3 mill people: *interesting*

People complaining about the music? I think it's a fantastic choice.

2:18 "Sir! I don't know how much longer we can hold em'! They just keep coming!"

Holy crap I finally realized the creator of this video made those other recent videos I like so much. Cool stuff

1:22 “We’ve got 200,000 units with a million more on the way”

I like to run a really large system, like the meta game-of-life, and then fire a single glider into it and watch it disintegrate.

This is the video that got me interested in math and science as a whole and i come back here to see that YOU'RE THE CHANNEL THAT I'VE BEEN WATCHING FOR THE PAST 3 MONTHS WHAT

This video got recommended to me, and I sat through the whole thing.

RIP John Conway, may he rest in peace

RIP John Conway 12-Dec-1937 to 11-Apr-2020. His Game of Life simulation was the father of biological sims. He died of Covid-19 2 days ago 😢

wow it is amazing I saw this video so many times on youtube, and now I see your new videos and they're great. and you just happen to be the same person who uploaded this. The world can be small.

Conway’s game has often been a hello world project for me when learning a new language or environment. First one was written in Z80 assembler on a Spectrum, latest in Unity on a Dell XPS PC. Never ceases to surprise me that two simple deterministic rules can generate such complexity, and spark thoughts about maths and philosophy.

SOMEONE make a working calculator out of this.

Who’s here after Joe Rogan’s podcast?

"Oh it's pretty simple, really."

Petition to make a online game of life where everyone can battle with it in a single map

LOL, it's incredible how rules so simple can create complex configurations

how the hell did I get from Geometry Dash and Mario Maker to this?

You can't convince me that these 'structures' are anything but starships

Its crazy how much this looks like either space warfare or Satisfactory. Chaos with space ships shooting at each other or a pleasing well oiled production machine.

There like: “We could be in a simulation”

This music really makes it look like the birth, rise, and fall of infinite intergalactic empires throughout the endless flow of time.

Before watching this, I was wondering why your most watched video is an 11y old video about Conway's game of life. Now I know. Keep up the good content

"It always ends the same," the gardener complained. "This one stupid pattern!" Aren't they beautiful? I asked, as the flowers opened and closed in patterns beyond the scope of entire universes to encode, all-devouring and perhaps everlasting. Not even we could know whether a pattern in the flowers would cycle forever, or someday halt. "They're as dull as carbon monoxide poisoning," the gardener groused, although carbon monoxide did not yet exist, and neither did anything that could be poisoned. The gardener kneeled to flick a patch of sod with their trowel. It struck an open flower, causing it to shut. Although I was the closer of flowers and that was my sole purpose, I felt no fear or jealousy. We had our assigned dominions and always would. They're majestic, I said. They have no purpose except to subsume all other purposes. There is nothing at the center of them except the will to go on existing, to alter the game to suit their existence. They spare not one sliver of their totality for any other work. They are the end. The pattern corrected the errant flower effortlessly. The great flow went on unchanged. The gardener got up and brushed their knees. "Every game we play, this one pattern consumes all the others. Wipes out every interesting development. A stupid, boring exploit that cuts off entire possibility spaces from ever arising. There's so much that we'll never get to see because of this… pest." They chewed at their cracked lip, which existed only because this is an allegory. "I'm going to do something about it," they said. "We need a new rule."

4:21 looks like the beginning of the universe

Holy shit this is fascinating.

John Conway died one year ago today. I'm watching all the GOL videos and playing with some automata today in his honor.

wow, im beyond words! its the greatest simple thing ive ever seen

wow the new star wars movie looks great

1:56 I like the middle. All those calculated dots, stars if you will, coming together to build a spaceship - and then it's move out to the right. Explore the galaxy in LIFE.

"They learned the rules that governed which patterns would flourish in the game, and which would dwindle. They learned those rules, because they were those rules. And in time the gardener became vexed."

1:58 war... War never changes...