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wraggster
August 7th, 2012, 22:31
Conway's Game of Life is now forty two years old, but it continues to inspire (http://cartesianproduct.wordpress.com/2012/08/07/more-than-a-game-the-game-of-life/) as well as being the basis of an actively researched field (http://aperiodical.com/2012/08/a-glider-on-an-aperiodic-cellular-automaton-exists/), with computer scientists now announcing they have found a new form of the famous 'glider' pattern (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22134-first-gliders-navigate-everchanging-penrose-universe.html) (once suggested by Eric S Raymond as the insignia of computer hackers) that runs over a so-called Penrose universe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_tiling).
http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/08/07/1257256/a-new-glider-found-for-conways-game-of-life