The Game of Life - Cellular Automata

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Lynn S. Fichter

Steve J. Baedke

Will Frangos

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Updated: 08/19/2008

John Conway's The Game of Life - Cellular Automata

We use two Game of Life programs in the laboratory, Life3000 obtained years ago from a now out of print Artificial Life book, and Life32, available as freeware on the web. Links to both are below:

Download Life3000 - must go through the password protected page; then to box on right.
Download Life32 - this is downloaded as a self extracting zip file.

Sites with Cellular Automata Applets (run online)

Caffeine: a collection of Java CA applets

Greenburg-Hastings Model - look at the applet at this site; looks just like an oscillating chemical reaction; really cool!.

MJCell - this is an especially nice version, with lots of files showing a great variety of CA systems. It works as an online applet, or you can download the entire package to your hard drive.
John Conway's Game of Life
Cellsprings
Diffusion

Sites to download other versions of CA

Conway's Game of Life by Alan Hensel - contains an applet near the top, but a variety of downloadable versions, including one for Macs.
Patterns, Programs, and Links for Conway's Game of Life - lots of links to CA's
Stephen Silver's Life Page

Tutorials and Applications - the sites below explain what CA's are, how they work, and what they mean. The Atlantic Monthly link shows applications to modeling social systems, such as origin of segregation, crime distribution, etc.; contains applets showing the models in action.

Cellular Automata - How They Are Created and Work
What is the Game of Life
Digital Worlds Cellular Automata by Alexander Schatten
CELLULAR AUTOMATA tutorial on CA by David G. Green,
Atlantic Monthly article: Artificial Society Animations for "Seeing Around Corners"

GO GET:

Life3000

Life32

Cellular Automata Experiments

Simple experiments using Life3000 - pdf files
Instructions 7 p
Record Pages 7 p

More thorough experiments using Life3000 and Life32 - pdf files
Instructions - 17 p
Record Pages - 3 p

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