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The Silver Game of Life Lexicon

Famous Game of Life configurations collected by Stephen A. Silver

A lexicon of terms relating to John Horton Conway's Game of Life. The largest single source for this lexicon - at least in its earlier versions - was a glossary compiled by Alan Hensel "with indispensable help from John Conway, Dean Hickerson, David Bell, Bill Gosper, Bob Wainwright, Noam Elkies, Nathan Thompson, Harold McIntosh, and Dan Hoey."

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Examples

Basic Examples

Retrieve the ResourceObject:

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ResourceObject["The Silver Game of Life Lexicon"]
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View the data:

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ResourceData["The Silver Game of Life Lexicon"]
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Visualization

Create an animation of the Gosper glider gun, the first pattern known to have infinite growth:

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ListAnimate[ ArrayPlot /@ NestList[ CellularAutomaton[<|"Dimension" -> 2, "GrowthSurvivalCases" -> {{3}, {2, 3}}|>][#] &, ArrayPad[ Normal@ResourceData["92b798c6-88e1-4aea-af77-538431dacc1b"][ "Gosper glider gun"]["Configuration"], 5], 30], AnimationRunning -> False]
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View the pentadecathlon, a period 15 oscillator found by Conway in 1970:

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ListAnimate[ ArrayPlot /@ NestList[ CellularAutomaton[<|"Dimension" -> 2, "GrowthSurvivalCases" -> {{3}, {2, 3}}|>][#] &, ArrayPad[ Normal@ResourceData["92b798c6-88e1-4aea-af77-538431dacc1b"][ "pentadecathlon"]["Configuration"], 4], 15], AnimationRunning -> False]
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View the phoenix, a period 2 oscillator where all cells die in each generation:

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ListAnimate[ ArrayPlot /@ NestList[ CellularAutomaton[<|"Dimension" -> 2, "GrowthSurvivalCases" -> {{3}, {2, 3}}|>][#] &, ArrayPad[ Normal@ResourceData["92b798c6-88e1-4aea-af77-538431dacc1b"][ "phoenix"]["Configuration"], 1], 2], AnimationRunning -> False]
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Wolfram Research, "The Silver Game of Life Lexicon" from the Wolfram Data Repository (2018)   https://doi.org/10.24097/wolfram.86089.data

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  • Publisher of Record: Wolfram Research