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Thanks BUNCHES to Bela Lubkin for such a "fun" program as life!
I enjoyed the CRYSTALS rule set very much, but thought it might be
interesting to make it 'live longer'. To that end, I started with a simple
"line", ran crystals on it until it was stable, then observed what was left:
what was left, was lots of alternate lines of cells:
...oooooooo...
...oooooooo...
etc. SO, I simply modified a couple rules to be births:
+---+---+---+ +---+---+---+ +---+---+---+
| o | o | o | | o | | o | | o | o | o |
+---+---+---+ +---+---+---+ +---+---+---+
| | | | | o | | o | | o | | o |
+---+---+---+ +---+---+---+ +---+---+---+
| o | o | o | | | o | | | o | | o |
+---+---+---+ +---+---+---+ +---+---+---+
(Also do all the mirror images: 1 on the left one, and 3 more on
the other two).
That's it! What I found most amazing about this modified rule, was the
length of life of simple figures before they go "stable".
Try turning on the magnifier, and the auto-draw, and draw a horizontal
line until the last cell next to the magnification window has just turned on
- then run it. It will run almost 1,800 cycles before it stabilizes.
If you'd like the crystal to "never die" but instead go into a VERY
long and interesting loop, add the following (and its 4 mirror images)
to the rules for new births:
+---+---+---+
| | o | |
+---+---+---+
| o | | o |
+---+---+---+
| | | |
+---+---+---+
01/10/87 from Ward Christensen 76703,302