Digital Clock in Conway's Game of Life

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sat Mar 18, 2017 7:37 am

Here is the most amazing thing you will see today:

https://copy.sh/life/?gist=f3413564b1fa ... 0&step=512

(You have to click "run" at the top to get it going.)

RealNC · Post by **RealNC** » Sat Mar 18, 2017 11:11 am

How the fuck is this possible?

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sat Mar 18, 2017 1:04 pm

RealNC wrote:How the fuck is this possible?

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sun Mar 19, 2017 10:50 am

Looking back at this, I think I'm going to upgrade it to the most amazing thing you'll likely ever see in your life.

Thank you.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Mar 19, 2017 11:50 am

I don't understand what is happening.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sun Mar 19, 2017 11:59 am

"You got it, alright, you just can't handle it." - The Fly

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Sun Mar 19, 2017 12:18 pm

It blue-screened my computer.

The Happiness Engine · Sun Mar 19, 2017 12:20 pm

My off-brand chinese browser showed me a collection of white dots that seemed like they were in some form of pattern.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sun Mar 19, 2017 1:10 pm

The Happiness Engine wrote:My off-brand chinese browser showed me a collection of white dots that seemed like they were in some form of pattern.

Did you hit "Run"? As I explained? You have to hit "Run".

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Sun Mar 19, 2017 1:28 pm

It worked fine in Ubuntu. Which is weird because I was using Firefox in both Windows and Linux. Pretty cool thing. Is there something explaining the whole clock-little-white-pixels process?

THE
EARLY MINECRAFT LOOKING
AARDVARK

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sun Mar 19, 2017 1:54 pm

I mean, we can explain the rules, right, but explaining that setup? I have no idea, and I will never have any idea. I see the basic concept, which I'm sure we all did:

- The thing at the top fires off gliders or spaceships or whatever they're called to the three things below, in a timed fashion.

- The three things below respond to those by firing off their own gliders at various points on the digit.

- Those digit things receive the gliders and cause the various LED segments to turn on and off.

It's worth mentioning that none of these are separate systems. It is one seamless whole. Which is what I've been trying to talk about in the Don Rogers base, but nobody listens to me.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Mar 19, 2017 2:18 pm

Vark, I think the site just chews through a lot of RAM. When I started adding cells, it got really slow and when I went to close that tab in my browser, the other tabs weren't particularly responsive.