Conway's Game of Life – Bill Gosper's Remarkable Demo (opens in new tab)

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I'm astounded every time I come back to these videos, and I know HN will appreciate them. Nowhere else have I seen this level of Life hacking.

If you know a way to access the software or patterns used in this demo, please let me know.

Youtube description:

"Bill Gosper's LIFE and MACSYMA presentation from November 4th, 2007 at the Computer History Museum during VCF 10."

The software used is Golly http://golly.sourceforge.net. It comes with many of examples to play with.

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I'm astounded every time I come back to these videos, and I know HN will appreciate them. Nowhere else have I seen this level of Life hacking.

If you know a way to access the software or patterns used in this demo, please let me know.

Youtube description:

"Bill Gosper's LIFE and MACSYMA presentation from November 4th, 2007 at the Computer History Museum during VCF 10."

The software used is Golly http://golly.sourceforge.net. It comes with many of examples to play with.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse