Renaissance man

Introduction

Fascinating view of how chaos can organise itself into patterns.

Perhaps it is the basis of the universe, a self organising system cancelling out the inevitable second law of thermodynamics. 

Starting off with the clumping of gases in the primordial soup that was our universe, into galaxies, stars and planets, to the self organising clumping of clays in the primordial earth that was our planet and ending with the self organising organic molecules that created life.  

Now these self organising clumps that is life can catalyse new lumps and in this way counteract even more the inevitable entropy of matter.

This project is simply a look at Conway's Game of LIfe and some modifications on the theme in order to better understand Chaos and Complexity.

Conway's Rules :

    1. Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if caused by under-population.
    2. Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation.
    3. Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overcrowding.
    4. Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction.

 Tests using 2 or less counters.

 Counters disappear on first move

 Tests using 3 counters :

 Tests using 4 counters :

The 4 basic Conway rules (see above) as applied to a randomly seeded 40 x 40 board :