http://www.nathanieljohnston.com/index.php/2009/08/generating-sequences-of-primes-in-conways-game-of-life/ A blog of recreational math and coding Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:05:34 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.nathanieljohnston.com/index.php/2009/08/generating-sequences-of-primes-in-conways-game-of-life/comment-page-1/#comment-1099 Carnival of Mathematics #57 « 360 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:13:57 +0000 http://www.nathanieljohnston.com/?p=598#comment-1099 [...] [...] [...] [...]

]]> http://www.nathanieljohnston.com/index.php/2009/08/generating-sequences-of-primes-in-conways-game-of-life/comment-page-1/#comment-1084 Nathaniel Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:02:27 +0000 http://www.nathanieljohnston.com/?p=598#comment-1084 Thanks Andrew -- I hadn't seen that before and am quite impressed by it! Time for me to learn a bit more about rule tables so that I can understand it better. Thanks Andrew — I hadn’t seen that before and am quite impressed by it! Time for me to learn a bit more about rule tables so that I can understand it better.

]]> http://www.nathanieljohnston.com/index.php/2009/08/generating-sequences-of-primes-in-conways-game-of-life/comment-page-1/#comment-1082 Andrew Trevorrow Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:23:30 +0000 http://www.nathanieljohnston.com/?p=598#comment-1082 Nathaniel, in case you haven't seen this, download http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/calcy/life/simulators.zip, install Primes.table and .colors in Golly's rules folder and then load primer.rle. This is a 2-cell(!) pattern that emulates Dean's primer Life pattern using a 10-state rule. Nathaniel, in case you haven’t seen this, download http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/calcy/life/simulators.zip, install Primes.table and .colors in Golly’s rules folder and then load primer.rle. This is a 2-cell(!) pattern that emulates Dean’s primer Life pattern using a 10-state rule.

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