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[Jakkarra]

I've seen this simulation a lot throught the internet, and have recently become quite interested in it, and was wondering what views other had of it?

I'm planning on running it for a while, to see if i notice anything that hasnt been seen before, i'm researching all about it at the moment.

[nenjin]

"Kill your children in the game of Life!"

[Capntastic]

I'm planning on running it for a while, to see if i notice anything that hasnt been seen before,

Such as?  It's fairly simple cellular automata.   It's unequivocably 'solved'.   There's not really anything new to notice.   If you can manage to set it up to do things continuously overnight, it's not going to spontaneously do 'new' and miraculous things- it's going to have a set starting state that isn't going to change.

http://www.radicaleye.com/lifepage/#browse  Feel free to check this out though.   

[Jakkarra]

DOn't get me wrong, Cap'n, i'm not an ignorant person, i know i'm not just magically going to see "New" stuff.

I have read about the oscillators, and that there are some that are believed to be possible, but have not as of yet been observed.

[it_is_coming]

Also, a spaceship for every direction is known to exist, but no one has discovered them yet. There's a lot of undiscovered territory in Life.

[Sowelu]

"A spaceship for every direction" is kind of like...well, directions are real numbers, there's uncountably many of them.

I was kind of amused by the signal transmitters and all sorts of neat word-drawing things.  But once they reduced it to plug-and-play bits and bobs where you put together solved pieces and fuses, and it forms a word after N iterations, I kinda lost interest.

Somewhere along the line, 'cutting edge' turned from artistic to clinical.  So avoid reading too much about it, and play with it yourself--it's way more fun to rediscover the wheel, and to discover all sorts of fast signal transmitters yourself!

Just say "Let's see if I can make something static that transmits a signal at c/20" and see if you can go from there, and work on faster and faster models.  Then see if you can create something to build your signal transmitter for you...etc.  Can you discover a signal transmitter that can receive signals to perpetuate itself, and then signals to build an arbitrary object at the end?  That would be tricky, but awesome.