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Zoal

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The 17c/45 Caterpillar spaceship
« on: January 20, 2009, 02:14:47 am »
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Re: The 17c/45 Caterpillar spaceship
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2009, 02:28:52 am »
lolwut?

What is that for? It doesn't make sense if you only read like 19 words out of the whole article. I doubt I have the attention span to read it all, anyone care to summarize for me?
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Re: The 17c/45 Caterpillar spaceship
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2009, 02:29:34 am »
http://home.mieweb.com/jsfiles/life/17c45/

You can use Life32 to view this Caterpillar Spaceship in realtime in Windows
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« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2009, 03:33:45 am »
Okay, so it's the mathematical game of life and it's a pretty impressive outcome. I'm impressed at whoever managed to make it.

But... huh? At the thread. Might just be the 3-am-ness talking, though.
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Re: The 17c/45 Caterpillar spaceship
« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2009, 12:51:08 pm »
Oh nice!  Totally new speed!  That's awesome.  Maybe not better, but weirder.
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Re: The 17c/45 Caterpillar spaceship
« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2009, 04:02:57 pm »
Anything where the term "adjuster pies" is highly technical is too awesome for words.

Also, the people who did that are huge nerds and I worry about their sanity. Maybe they need to eat some more adjuster pie.
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Re: The 17c/45 Caterpillar spaceship
« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2009, 04:24:40 pm »
Quote from: Fossaman on January 20, 2009, 04:02:57 pm
Anything where the term "adjuster pies" is highly technical is too awesome for words.

Also, the people who did that are huge nerds and I worry about their sanity. Maybe they need to eat some more adjuster pie.

I miss my days of SC/WC3 mapmaking, where "doodad" was a technical term. :P
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Re: The 17c/45 Caterpillar spaceship
« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2009, 04:27:48 pm »
Seriously though, this is awesome tech and brainpower going into this kind of stuff.

It's a wonderful technology to take some of the lessons from, and then apply to, like...artificial protein creation, coming up with techniques to search for effective folding patterns and chains that do what you want.

Only problem is that the field is so deep that now someone can spend twenty years working on Life-the-game and never run out of material, never being forced to branch out into more productive things >.>
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Oh, a biomass/24 hour solar facility. How green!

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Re: The 17c/45 Caterpillar spaceship
« Reply #8 on: January 20, 2009, 04:30:18 pm »
I've seen this, Conway's Game of Life.  It makes my computer run at a crawl however.  ;D
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Re: The 17c/45 Caterpillar spaceship
« Reply #9 on: January 20, 2009, 08:02:10 pm »
Quote from: GenericOverusedName on January 20, 2009, 03:33:45 am
Okay, so it's the mathematical game of life and it's a pretty impressive outcome.

Jeez, understatement of the Millennium...
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« Reply #10 on: January 21, 2009, 12:13:03 am »
Quote from: Fossaman on January 20, 2009, 04:02:57 pm
Anything where the term "adjuster pies" is highly technical is too awesome for words.

I laughed hard.  I still giggle.
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Re: The 17c/45 Caterpillar spaceship
« Reply #11 on: January 21, 2009, 10:41:28 pm »
Quote from: Warlord255 on January 20, 2009, 04:24:40 pm
I miss my days of SC/WC3 mapmaking, where "doodad" was a technical term. :P
It still is.
And in World of Warcraft, too.
Yup, that's right.  All those little random environment models (rocks, I believe trees are, barrels, boxes, etc) in your WoW are called doodads.
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« Reply #12 on: January 22, 2009, 01:11:24 am »
the rules are actually very simple:

the world is seeded with dots.

for every cycle,
any lone dot dies out
any dot next to more than 2 dots dies out

in every spot next to two other dots, a new dot is born.
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Re: The 17c/45 Caterpillar spaceship
« Reply #13 on: January 22, 2009, 01:55:01 am »
Well there are different rule sets for life. Especally 3 and moredimensional systems can be interresting.
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Re: The 17c/45 Caterpillar spaceship
« Reply #14 on: January 22, 2009, 02:51:17 am »
Quote from: Heph on January 22, 2009, 01:55:01 am
Well there are different rule sets for life. Especally 3 and moredimensional systems can be interresting.

How the hell do you model 3+ dimensional systems? They're beyond human comprehension.
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