would love more like this

Why do the loops look tasty

Didn't Conway transition in like 1999

It's kinda like a colonial organism

Hm what about making a loop with different rule set where they can interact with each other without causing issues

This video is very fascinating!

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This video was helpful even 14 years later

I really like the way the custom music lines up with what’s happening in the video, it’s very pretty to watch/listen to. It reminds me a bit of TodePond in that way

This is neat

self-replicating snails

Conways game of loops

4:47 tf is sexyloop

is it just me or did that in the end look like just a ton of fluid tanks in mindustry connected to a cryofluid pipe?

If the size of the total grid were a multiple of the size of the Langton's Loop (with padding) would they cleanly stop when top and bottom (or left and right) meet each other? You only showed us examples with misaligned loops.

It fails consistently

The video hit the algorithm again! Love the old vhs educational vidoe style!

There are many other rule that replicate itself, like Fredkin's replicator or a rule like 'if 1, 3, 5, 7 number of neighborhoods alive then the cell become alive regardless of previous state, and else become dead regardless of previous state (on 0, 2, 4, 6, 8 neighborhoods)'. A game named 'The Powder Toy' introduces several simple rules including original Conway's game of life, might be interesting to look at.

It’s interesting to see that even the broken loops have a pattern

Seems that it would be consistent to connect the edges with a shift or skew. That is, instead of a top cell connecting to a bottom cell in the same column, it connects to a column five columns to the right. I wonder what that would look like.

So Langton's loop algorithm wasn't programmed with termination in mind. I bet the rules could be amended to, or a handful of them altered to program for graceful termination.

What would happen if, in the Game of Life, diagonal cells were worth sqrt(2)/2 neighbors due to the further distance? How would the rules be generalized to the real numbers? A cell could have all diagonal neighbors alive and still not die. (sqrt(8) <= 3)

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So… the loop’s “stop” protocol is when it collided with another loop. However, the protocol is faulty, and causes many forms of potential errors which can- possibly be determined by the step it took in order to collide with another loop. So, in a white room scenario, you can possibly utilize the best possible error to essentially build a reinforced line of material. Of course, this is getting into sci-fi territory, but if we could apply these rules and manipulate the proper error state on the right material, it could potentially create a rather useful protection or building resource.

Without looking through all the comments, I'd still assume that someone has already suggested that a formula exists which can tell you what dimensions of grid will allow for stable growth up to the moment of self-interaction, WITHOUT generating any "deformed" structures along the collision boundary. The game would then end with a grid which... (_on a torus_) ...would be entirely seamless, with no evidence to show where the initial "seed" had been placed. ----- My initial guess would be for the x-&-y dimensions to each be some multiple of 11...? ----- My final query is, we see what initial configuration of cell states was used in the video, but what's the SMALLEST initial configuration that can get the same results?

I feel like this is what inspired helldivers to make the robots names “automatons”. This could also be the explanation to how they’re able to replicate themselves.

How exactly do you define a figure? Because if you really think about it, 000011, 2 states and a starting position of literally just one pixel is, in a way, self-replicating.

Cool video but the bass in the background music is annoyingly loud

yooooo

if { if { if { if { if { } else {} } else {} } else {} }else{}} else {}

Why, in the end, such a symmetrical system turned into an asymmetrical result? Thnx.

10:42 I thought this is some program code or something (like repeat functions)

Roblox tycoon droppers take any route BUT the quickest one 😭

Amazing video

rn its at 442442 views, perfect

2:04 yeah, dead cells is an platformer roguelike game that-

looks like I found a youtuber with that one popular video and then never hit the spotlight again

2:50 glider was born into the grid

dude how am i supposed to hear what you are saying with music over the top lmao?

I am getting eed world vibes

That looks like cancer in the cellular automata world

When you think about it, the glider is somewhat depressing. It’s cells that reproduce to somewhere else and then die, just to move their offspring to somewhere where they too will meet the same end.

I would love to see a Finished rendering of the end product but with different angled borders animated

Omg this young man is such a talented artist, he will become a comic book artist in the future, and keep creating and never stop, also publish those comics and i'll buy one!

10:48 lasers.

Dead cells reference?

Cell Machine on crack:

11:50 langton's stasis