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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"

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

They literally built a spaceship factory...

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

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

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 ;)

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?

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 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.

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

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!

I remember watching this nine years ago, and still watching

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

better than infinity warfare

welcome to the power of axioms and logic.

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

How many of you find this video after verituasm uploaded

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

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?!?

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

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

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.

definition of "well that escalated quickly"

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

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

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

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.

"Oh it's pretty simple, really."

A system creating spaceships from gliders, fascinating.

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

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

Conways game of life gives me such a Star Trek vibe when I see stuff like this. Sending these great fleets of colonists into the far beyond to land somewhere and grow and expand when they do. As it would given that fundamentally that is the prerogative of life, to expand into all available space and survive there. The black backdrop of the simulation is just the perfect canvas to tell the story.

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

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

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.

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

RIP John Conway, may he rest in peace

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.

You can't convince me that these 'structures' are anything but starships

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

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

When I was a kid I came upon that issue of Scientific American. I was fascinated! First worked the patterns on graph paper with a pencil. Then my mom made a cloth marked with squares, 12x12 or 16x16, whatever it was, and I used plastic pieces. Finally in high school I made a computer to do this using 7400 series TTL and an oscilloscope. (I should made a YT video about that) It won me some sort of plaque in the Detroit Metro Science Fair. So yeah, I was really into this stuff. Now I watch others made magnificent videos like this, on grids of thousands of cells by thousands of cells, tubs and traffic lights and eaters and glider guns and spaceships and lightspeed decay of infinite patterns. I don't recall if I left a comment on this video before, but if I did, I stand by whatever I said! Fantastic video!

Petition to make a online game of life where everyone can battle with it in a single map

There like: “We could be in a simulation”

SOMEONE make a working calculator out of this.

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

2:18 "Sir! I don't know how much longer we can hold em'! They just keep coming!"

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

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

I can imagine a hidden rickroll video like this, where it keeps zooming out until you see the pixel formations turn into a b&w 'never gonna give u up'

4:25 is my favorite part by fat the most satisfying

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

4:21 looks like the beginning of the universe

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

Something interesting to try is to simply start with a long line of live cells. With a long enough line they (as far as I know) Always seem to form a double serpinski's triangle, even at vastly different scales and degrees of complexity. Try it out some time in Golly. It's very easy to do and utterly fascinating.

Holy shit this is fascinating.

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

"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).

The title is the only time I've seen epic used correctly

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?

wow the new star wars movie looks great

Requiem for a dream ost makes this even more amazing

Hey, can someone show me how to do this I tried the link in the description and it didn't work and neither did looking it up. If you have like a full image or something of these things, can you please post it. I need this power.

Considering just how simple these rules are, it isn't difficult to see how the amazing things in our universe can come from 'slightly' more complex rules.