John Conway is why I got a PhD in computational social science. His Game of Life was my first encounter with cellular automata and I thought it was just about the coolest most interesting thing I had ever seen. Still mostly feel that way. Thanks for the inspiration, Dr. Conway.pic.twitter.com/7JJwFdcpp6
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If you're curious, there is a whole community of people playing with the GoL. https://www.conwaylife.com/
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They've discovered some truly incredible forms. Here's a recent one called the Scholar (383P7H2V0). If you go to the page, you can run it in your browser. https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Scholar pic.twitter.com/rnPAB3d54x
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Replying to @generativist
I saw a gray circle for a second just a minute ago. I guess that was due to changing pics?
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