Conway's Game of Life in Real Life

[DaveC426913]

Game of Life

Playing out in rainwater on my door screen...

Appears to be using highly permissive life/death parameters tho...

 

[Borg]

That's probably not the right way to screen for pathogens.

 

[DaveC426913]

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}

 

[BillTre]

Would "mechanical" include material interactions?
They might be combined in interesting, very finely resolved geometries.

 

[Ibix]

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.