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Mumbo Jumbo: the redstone is actually pretty simple. The redstone:

"That's a pretty good animation. What did you use to make it?" "Conway's game of life"

They literally built a spaceship factory...

Such a simple rules can create these wonderful almost alive structures imagine what 3 dimensional molecular chemistry could do in about 4 billion years. This comment for example ;)

It's actually hard to believe John Conway is now dead from the coronavirus, it's a big loss for people in the math community. Rest in peace man.

I like how at some points it seems perfectly organized and harmonious, whereas other times it’s a complete war zone.

Hand sanitizer: *kills 99% of germs* The remaining 1%:

I'm studying computer science at university, and our prof. showed this video in his lecture (ofc he gave credits to this video). It's amazing to see how all of this is based on simple logic, aswell as Mandelbrot fractal geometries! It's somehow inspirational isn't it?

Meanwhile in the video all the cells denying they're in a simulation.

I love the fact that even though this video is 9 years old, he still hearts some comments from a few months ago. Truly amazing.

Nine years and this video still fascinates me as if it's the first time I'm seeing it.

What's really interesting about this project is, its rules also work in a 3D dimension. I was sure it doesn't but then I remade it in unity 3d and it WORKED!!!

Combined with that music, it looks like evil, soul-less factories preparing for war.

1:13 2 glider salvo 1:21 Gosper glider gun 1:36 Two GGGs 1:45 One-dimensional glider stream 1:55 P416 60P5H2V0 gun 2:26 Turing machine 2:56 Day & Night 3:02 Spacefiller that's nowhere close to the other spacefillers... 3:09 Glider loops 3:14 3-engine Cordership gun and eater 3:16 Spacefiller being destroyed 3:18 LWSS gun 3:27 6-engine Cordership gun 3:53 MWSS gun 3:58 Golly ticker 4:05 Seeds 4:20 Spacefiller destruction, again 4:28 Spacefiller 4:33 Cambrian Explosion 4:39 Sawtooth 4:45 LWSS gun 4:52 Cambrian Explosion again 4:57 Dying spacefiller 5:04 Switch engine breeder 5:10 p34 gun 5:15 Line puffer 5:22 Guns 5:28 c/3 rake 5:35 Puffer 2 5:41 Cordership rake 5:47 p90 rake 5:52 Inline inverter? 5:55 ??? 5:57 2c/5 puffer 6:00 Rakes 6:13 c/5 rake 6:17 Pi ship Whew, what a long list...

It really can't be a 2011 video without Requiem for a Dream as its soundtrack. Anyways praise to the almighty algorithm God for letting me discover this gem!

A very nice aspect is that the gamne of life literally shows us how several molecular components with simple functions can produce complexer forms which have complexer functions. Life MUST be everywhere in the Galaxy.

Imagine accidentally putting a block in a spot without noticing and it just ruins everything

1:10 me and my bro running to the ice cream truck

This video missed the coolest part of the image at 2:45- that’s a Turing machine! The game of life allows you to build simulated rudimentary computers in it, which is fucking bonkers

For some reason to me many of these look like civilizations making spaceships, and some looks like things on a production line

This got recommend to me after watching Sam Hogan's recent video

The Covid-19 pandemic killed many tall trees in every area of ​​the modern world. Today is sad to hear that John Horton Conway, one of the most famous and charismatic mathematicians in the world, died of Covid-19 on April 11, 2020 at home, in New Jersey, USA. , 82 years old.

The people who devised these amazing patterns deserve some credit too.

I remember watching this nine years ago, and still watching

I have *_no_* idea whats going on but it looks awesome..

it literally looks like they're building and sending out ships in the fourth one

When you realise someone has made the conways game of life, inside the conways game of life. Makes your head hurt.

I think what is more amazing about the Game of Life, is that it is one of the simplest programs you could write, with just three major rules, and it can create things similar to actual life and even replication. I always wondered if Conway when he first came up with this realized just how amazing his simple math game became.

4:58 "moooom, i accidently formed a new galaxy"

I didn't know what the title could mean by "epic" but I was not disappointed.

youtube's been recommending me this game of life thing, but this video in particular has given me a huge nostalgia wave of old youtube (because the music of course)

i'm hyperfixated on conway's game of life right now and this was *just* what i needed thank you

It's amazing how somehow, the easier a sandbox games mechanics are, the more impressively that people will mold and exploit the possibilities to create something truly breathtaking

better than infinity warfare

The editing here is really good, particularly toward the end. I've been a fan of Conway's Game of Live for decades, and I'm really enjoying these things being put to music in such a dramatic way. Some of these are reminding me of The Tholian Web (Star Trek). It makes me want to see someone make an attempt at a voice over script giving these a more specific story line.

Imagine, real world chemistry is this but three dimensional and with more states and more rules

1:56 That freaked me out a little. Maths is creating flying insects now. Makes you think what if everything is the result of one formula repeating over time?

"So I ask my dad, 'Dad, what is technology?' And he goes... 'IT'S MAGIC, JOEL. IT'S MAGIC.'"

may the creation of the creator become the inventor such simple laws with such unexpectedly complex outputs, makes you wonder what life in our universe could develop into, rest in peace John Conway

is no one going to mention just how sick Requiem for a Dream's theme is?

2:13 that's how space invaders are made :P

I'd just like to point out what a perfect example this is of how audio can influence our perception of visual content. Imagine if this video had cricket sounds instead of that epic Requiem for a dream soundtrack. It was pretty cool, though.

12 years have passed since this video's creation and it's still just as spectacular as it was back hten. Truly timeless.

I JUST realized this old video was made my Rational Animations! I didn't realize. Banger of a song. Really great new content!

somewhere right now God is watching a computer screen at his basement sipping some semi-cold coffee laughing that holy shit this thing has kept evolving for long

welcome to the power of axioms and logic.

Had a joint and started watching this, epic watch, loved it all way through

The fact that a few simple rules can make THIS chemistry like behavior happen is mind-blowing

Whoever made the one at 2:12 is a genius lol

...Such simple rules.... ...such complex behaviour...

Alt. tittle: "Conway's game of life: Gameplays compilation"

The brain power of whoever made the "Golly" rolling word printer is op af!

3:15 it looks like bacteria is eating the uniform lines.... What do you see??

Grammar has a few simple rules, too. It's amazing what you can create by following them.

This video got recommended to me, and I sat through the whole thing.

This got me thinking, what if a supercomputer simulates this long enough (perhaps with a very clever/powerful genetic algorithm or neural network algorithm at play as well), that extremely complex intelligent organisms develop, start to gain curiosity, question their existence, and conduct scientific experiments? Those pixel-creatures would eventually discover the nature of the world they live in, including the four laws as illustrated in the beginning of the video. But they would never be able to figure out what causes their world to exist -- there is no way for them to know about the transistors in the supercomputer which is running them, let alone the humans who built the supercomputer. In that same way, we might one day discover the deepest secrets of the universe, and the grand unified "theory of everything". But if we are in a simulation, or part of a program within a parent universe, there is no way for us to ever understand or detect those things which birthed our universe.

"Life, ugh, finds a way." - Jeff Goldblum

I didn't realize I'd watched whole video upside-down until recommendation showed up.

Its crazy how much this looks like either space warfare or Satisfactory. Chaos with space ships shooting at each other or a pleasing well oiled production machine.

Some masterminds: -that was nice game dudes, let's rematch tomorrow

Squares: fight to the death 3 mill people: *interesting*

Holy crap I finally realized the creator of this video made those other recent videos I like so much. Cool stuff

Conway’s game has often been a hello world project for me when learning a new language or environment. First one was written in Z80 assembler on a Spectrum, latest in Unity on a Dell XPS PC. Never ceases to surprise me that two simple deterministic rules can generate such complexity, and spark thoughts about maths and philosophy.

A system creating spaceships from gliders, fascinating.

Requiem for a dream ost makes this even more amazing

The fact that some of these are acting like factories or networks is honestly amazing

when you're so good at the game of life, you create a self-sustaining colony that creates a ship that makes a freaking pattern in space. HOW DO PEOPLE DO THIS?!?

People complaining about the music? I think it's a fantastic choice.

How many of you find this video after verituasm uploaded

Love how the "little entanglements" build rapidly until the right combo of live or dead unite to build something greater

I like to run a really large system, like the meta game-of-life, and then fire a single glider into it and watch it disintegrate.

1:22 “We’ve got 200,000 units with a million more on the way”

I love this thing. It's a great teaching tool for people to demonstrate how complex behavior can arise from a relatively simple set of rules

This 4 section synchronized assembly line thing is pretty amazing how they all work independently then join together and launch a ship.

What's really freaky is my Google assistant said this was the 1st thing she ever searched when she was born

RIP John Conway, may he rest in peace

I didn't even know what was going on, but I enjoyed every second of it.

This is the video that got me interested in math and science as a whole and i come back here to see that YOU'RE THE CHANNEL THAT I'VE BEEN WATCHING FOR THE PAST 3 MONTHS WHAT

4:21 looks like the beginning of the universe

how the hell did I get from Geometry Dash and Mario Maker to this?

wow, im beyond words! its the greatest simple thing ive ever seen

definition of "well that escalated quickly"

SOMEONE make a working calculator out of this.

Who’s here after Joe Rogan’s podcast?

wow it is amazing I saw this video so many times on youtube, and now I see your new videos and they're great. and you just happen to be the same person who uploaded this. The world can be small.

I cant believe you didn't show an example of the game of life being used to run the game of life. Talk about an amazing example.

LOL, it's incredible how rules so simple can create complex configurations

1:58 war... War never changes...

imagine an rts in which you control a ship, launching gliders at opponents like in uboat

i couldnt tell whether this video was old as hell or fairly recent but as soon as requiem for a dream kicked in i knew

There like: “We could be in a simulation”

RIP John Conway 12-Dec-1937 to 11-Apr-2020. His Game of Life simulation was the father of biological sims. He died of Covid-19 2 days ago 😢

4:40 - spacecraft sending and receiving information from its home-planet

okay is it weird that i made up a whole story to go along with this 0.o

This is beautiful is very deep sense! One can see how protein / cell construction arise from logical mechanism... Stunning really. Does anyone else feel a deep connection between this and cellular biology?

This music really makes it look like the birth, rise, and fall of infinite intergalactic empires throughout the endless flow of time.

"The Game of Life" proves that living matter does not necessarily need a "soul" to gain consciousness. All that is needed is an infinite matrix that evolution has bestowed on the living thing over time (which we now call it the central nervous system) and stimuli that will initiate the necessary pattern (which we call "sense" such as light, heat or touch).

Before watching this, I was wondering why your most watched video is an 11y old video about Conway's game of life. Now I know. Keep up the good content

Holy shit this is fascinating.