Conway's Game of Life in Real Life

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The discussion revolves around the concept of creating a mechanical version of Conway's Game of Life (CGoL) using rainwater on a door screen. Participants express skepticism about the permissiveness of the life/death parameters in the current setup, questioning its effectiveness for screening pathogens. There is curiosity about the feasibility of building a mechanical CGoL, with considerations of limiting the arena's size and the potential for integrating material interactions in finely resolved geometries. A reference is made to a video demonstrating a similar concept using plates on a tiled floor, where human intervention was required to transition between frames.
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Playing out in rainwater on my door screen...
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Appears to be using highly permissive life/death parameters tho...
 
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That's probably not the right way to screen for pathogens.
 
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Now I'm wondering how hard it would be to build a mechanical CGoL setup*.*impossible**

**unless I limit the arena to something shy of infinite in extent
 
Would "mechanical" include material interactions?
They might be combined in interesting, very finely resolved geometries.
 
DaveC426913 said:
Now I'm wondering how hard it would be to build a mechanical CGoL setup*.
I've seen a video of it done with plates on a tiled floor. It was all still frames and human run between the scenes, though.
 
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