digital clock in conways game of life

[@CC-hx8gj]

Imagine accidentally changing 1 pixel and then having the entire thing turn to chaos

[@5dgisd528]

the fine tuning of the universe we exist in...

[@isaac4283]

@Dr Deuteron or prions

[@_mvr_]

that's Life

[@Bibibosh]

Dr Deuteron The removal of any 1 pixel :::- digital mutation; cause by quantum anomalies!

[@Bibibosh]

Luke Palmer .....like a big jigsaw puzzle? Or like the 1:1 earth in minecraft.

[@mistycremo9301]

Most engineers don't have to take "Speed of Light Delay" into account when designing a simple digital clock. Kudos to whoever made this, for using such a weird system to their advantage in such a weird project.

[@AtlasReburdened]

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Imagine if electronics only worked if the voltage propagation front had to arrive with Planck moment accuracy. We'd still be in the 'Are steam engines _really_ better than horses?' phase of history.

[@AndreasDelleske]

It is a real problem in modern cpu design.

[@FailuresWithJade]

It’s been a big deal for a long time. We have it much easier nowadays. I can just write some HDL and hit a button, assuming my HDL is any good and I’m not being too ambitious with the clock speed. If your signal starts changing too early or finishes arriving too late, then your flip flop ends up being filled with garbage. I couldn’t imagine doing timing analysis by hand in the 60s, even for a little few thousand transistor CPU like the 6502

[@rr.studios]

I too sometimes use big words I don't understand to make myself sound more photosynthesis.

[@AtlasReburdened]

@@rr.studios Liking your own comment is rather uncouth.

[@kwantator]

Imagine the sole purpose of your universe's existence is just to tell time in a higher dimension

[@mso1ps4]

Clocks all the way down

[@brainloading5543]

Ever heard of atoms ?

[@shaneh1003]

30-something years ago I was imagining our universe as a microscopic particle in a much more complex and larger universe, and it tortured me with fear. The idea of infinity was even more frightening, or even that there could be an edge with nothingness beyond. So I guess it was more comforting, although scary, thinking it was stack upon stack of larger and smaller universes enveloped in one another. The things that kept me fearfully petrified laying awake in bed as a child.

[@MadScientist267]

...

[@The_Jovian]

Are you so sure that our's isn't?

[@juanma4978]

This is what scicraft members would be doing if minecraft gets deleted

[@jac4900]

Exactly! xD

[@oitthegroit1297]

Like that's gonna happen Minecraft will live on!

[@XenophonSoulis]

Exactly.

[@gatedrat6382]

@@oitthegroit1297 Remember this comment in a few years

[@JacobRy]

@@gatedrat6382 it's gonna last a while

[@Zmunk19]

so you're one of them people who builds clocks with the lemons that Conway gives them

[@griffins.4817]

when the game of life gives you lemons, arrange them in such a way that you can play DOOM on them

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

He doesn't even like lemons

[@redpepper74]

Pffft. Burn Conway’s house down.

[@Ethan_Clark1]

redpepper74 WITH THE LEMONS

[@deckedoutpistol1821]

I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these? Do you know who I am? I'm the man whose gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

[@pavelv419]

after waching this video i feel myself like cave man living in 21 century =((

[@Aric-ls7bf]

pavel v then you should watch Conways Game of Life made in itself

[@AndreasDelleske]

It’s the 21st century cave again, don’t worry.

[@orionthewildhunt9173]

oh hi yea dont live in 2021 turn away for life

[@captainsnake8515]

So I knew that Conway’s game of life was turring complete and hence you could do anything with it but I didn’t think anyone was crazy enough put in the work of doing anything with it

[@the_netherqueen]

Wait Conway's is turring complete?

[@cyntheticconjurer]

@@the_netherqueen It is indeed! And some people on StackOverflow built a Tetris game in it in the best way possible: by building the hardware of a rudimentary computer, writing an assembly language that they could convert into a Game of Life pattern that computer understands, and then writing a programming language they could compile into that assembly language, and writing Tetris in that. codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/11880/build-a-working-game-of-tetris-in-conways-game-of-life

[@deneb_tm]

@@cyntheticconjurer Well that was a two-hour-long rabbit hole found via a sub-two-minute video, thank you for making me go down it.

[@fussyboy2000]

There's an implmentation of Game of Life in Game of Life.

[@_ryannnnnnnn_]

You can even write minecraft if you want lmao.

[@carteradams43]

me: makes glider gun and feels very proud (for copying one i found online) this guy:

[@sharonsia1351]

Same

[@rosiefay7283]

It amazes me that everything works even though everything is asynchronous (there are no latches) and everything is on one plane. Glider streams that aren't meant to interact have to be routed around each other or else timed so that there are never any collisions.

[@oliviapg]

RIP John Conway, an incredible mathematician and person

[@DrakiniteOfficial]

Holy crap.... This is absolutely incredible.

[@kilroy987]

"Oh, an LED clock, nice - what crystal does it use?" "You are dead to me."

[@minecraftify95]

"It uses glideronium."

[@nguyenphamthanhgiang8951]

So this is what geniuses and mathematicans plays all day long, I am not suprise.

[@13mudit]

Indeed. You are Nguyen Pham Thanh Giang

[@nanamacapagal8342]

I myself would like to call myself a mathematician but this has made me less worthy of that title.

[@pyrogenic]

relatable

[@comicsansgreenkirby]

Not really mathematicians :p

[@phonglove6767]

Ikr

[@williamsmith6921]

Can we draw an f in the conways game of life to pay respects for John conway

[@AuxenceF]

Easy, use squares of 4 cells with 1 cell between them

[@comicsansgreenkirby]

:(

[@vandanapopuri9530]

F

[@thegardenofeatin5965]

xkcd 2293

[@burak1382]

Draw an F: _____________ | | |_______ | | | |

[@poisax]

i imagine that people who don't know what Conway's game of life is would find this video incredibly boring while people who do know are fucking gobsmacked because this shit is insane, well done!

[@Riael]

Rip Conway :( Ty youtube algorithm

[@hhp3]

Very nice work. Good job. I would very much like to see a video describing the component parts and discussing how you organized it. Please tell us about how you built this.

[@gigi12gigi12]

Rest in peace, Conway. You gave mathematicians lots of your wisdom and us simple people an incredible toy which can be used even to make a computer inside a computer. Let your name live forever in the minds of the people.

[@gavincurtis]

Like looking at alien nanotechnology or something. Amazing. Could you add “SENSOR COOK”, “PIZZA ROLLS” and “4 SERVINGS”?

[@The_WhitePencil]

And if you put some food next to your pc it actually does cook it! From the explosion that is happening inside it!

[@horsenuggets1018]

Two number nines, a number nine large...

[@ItsRubyGD]

a number 6 with extra dip

[@thenotoriusbp]

two number fourty fives, one with cheese

[@valmontnaudin5642]

Category: sport?

[@valmontnaudin5642]

:P

[@TimschneiderSchneider]

esport ?

[@iminni3459]

Chess is a sport, my dear friend.

[@KC9UDX]

Recreational mathematics is a sport. Especially now that we're all quarantined..

[@hamiltonianpathondodecahed5236]

it has been changed now

[@asdfadfafsdfa]

This game always made me feel weird because this is how higher dimensional beings probably see us...

[@over1757]

RIP Conway :(

[@glaseraaa]

you have zero right to be this awesome, jesus this must have taken a long time

[@siamvat]

Beautiful. Great job, this is just astounding. Understanding the entire mechanism of games and objects, then chaining them together and programing them to complete tasks that can make digital numbers. I never thought this gave could turn out to be this amazing.

[@FreakinKatGaming]

Omg it's been awhile since I heard anyone messing with this, yet you come and make a freaking clock holy lord thats impressive

[@LarryPanozzo]

Genius. If only people could work on this full time!

[@alengm]

Larry Panozzo maybe that's what some researchers back in 60s did!

[@stumbling]

Not exactly the same thing but you will find Dave Ackley's work interesting. kzbin.info

[@PersonMann]

Can’t believe Goncharov made this

[@Geegs]

This is probably the most blessed video I've seen in a long time

[@patricksmith7626]

This literally frightens me on some deep, existential level. Are we the constructs? How could we know? "Like" for making me question my existance.

[@jacobr7729]

Rip john conway :(

[@cavestoryking8761]

RIP Conway, such a brilliant man.

[@thorham1346]

Would be nice to make a table clock out of this (Raspberry Pi + screen).

[@gcxs]

with 32gb ram

[@ow_]

@@gcxs you definitely don't need anywhere near that amount, since that's millions of bytes (life blocks) and this uses a significantly less canvas size in comparison. This runs in the browser, too, from a tgol interpreter made by the same guy that got x86 in the browser. So it really wouldn't be that hard. Just stick a small display on, boot up chromium, and you're pretty much all set

[@ryanrising2237]

To really see what’s going on, you’d need a pretty big screen, wouldn’t you?

[@MiikKasuu]

haha this is literally what I thought of doing as soon as i saw this!

[@absolutelyproprietary6896]

The most bloated, unnecessary and overengineered clock! I loved it lets make one!

[@andresalcaino7278]

imagine being a cell without knowing that it is only part of a clock. Maybe we are part of a clock...

[@Ok20066Real]

Uh-oh time for an existential crisis.

[@AndrewHalliwell]

No, we're part of a program to determine the question.

[@keithg2651]

jaw dropping

[@RamLaska]

Conway couldn’t have imagined this when he was doing it on paper all those years ago.

[@LampChop239]

Просто невероятная работа, очень восхищает! Представить сложно, сколько времени и просчетов на это ушло

[@alexandermorozov2248]

Как на дисплее меняются цифры? Да ещё и в нужной последовательности? 😮

[@myllinerix6911]

RIP John Conway. You was a great mathematician х_х

[@ItzFlowerGMD]

were*

[@ahmetyusufklc5359]

Rest in peace Conway.

[@spicerice8116]

I wish I could even comprehend what went through the creators mind when making this

[@ezekielbrockmann114]

Most likely Ritalin and lots of it.

[@astro_penguin_]

@@ezekielbrockmann114real

[@JordanBeagle]

This is incredible I didn't know you could practically make functional things in GoL you even have the PM in the corner!

[@mcnole25]

The pixels are so smart

[@NightmareCourtPictures]

Now you gotta make it so that the little squares can do machine learning so it can create the clock on its own.

[@minecraftify95]

Even if they had machine learning they couldn't because, y'know, Conway's game of life has rules.

[@ian_b]

And there was me all those years ago proud that I'd written Game Of Life in machine code for my ZX Spectrum :D

[@EvilSandwich]

I need to learn Z80 someday. I'm a 6502 boy myself lol

[@dannygjk]

@@EvilSandwich I would prefer to code in Z80 over the 6502 and I did do quite a bit in 6809 code. The 6809 was less well known than the 6502 but only because of the Apple computer's popularity. The architecture of the 6809 is superior to the 6502.

[@jackhandma1011]

Damn. The amount of work it took to make this...

[@jorgemarcelo4708]

No way!.. we need more videos about this!

[@JamesTDG]

The animation is beautiful and so damn smooth!

[@freevbucks8019]

As Conway said, if a machine is unpredictable, it can do anything

[@oddspray346]

Rest In Peace Conway

[@charliepea]

If humanity can make a working clock over a bunch of cells, then a full-pledged working computer completely run by Conway GoL might be possible.

[@monsterlover6015]

This looks incredible. Great work👏👏👏

[@Max_Le_Groom]

I simulated Conway's Game Of Life on a Calculator and turned 2D pixel graphics into 3D voxel-like graphics on a touchscreen, both by accident

[@punman5392]

Wow Mr. Gorbachev you certainly have a lot of time on your hands

[@rysea9855]

When quarantine kicks in

[@calebhouston5799]

This man has way too much time and dedication

[@teranexcz1971]

F, rest in peace John Conway.

[@gabxan7966]

it's just a piece of excellence in any aspect you see it. engineering, programming skills, depth of thinking, you name it! my deepest respect! Is there any chance to get hands on the source code?

[@imsohigh4520]

I have created many, many, initial conditions, aka rules, I can configure them symmetrical, non symmetrical, horizontal, and diagonal. I also have rules that are infinite. They never shrink, and they never die, they only evolve. Conway’s rule is too destructive, on average, it dies off faster than I can toast some bread in a toaster. There’s probably 50 different rules, I have created.

[@MarcosLlemes]

Imagine being able to do this but not having anyone who could understand what you're talking about

[@mrjoe332]

I once built a dirt hut in Minecraft

[@Saikiran-pf1ry]

Imagine the feeling you'd get after you build something this complicated AND IT WORKS!

[@Myrical32007]

I can't even begin to imagine to complexity of this.

[@lucankeyser2111]

RIP Conway.

[@codyclickbait5443]

What. The. Heck! ... I am officially amazed oO

[@JediEdi]

I have no idea how you make a digital clock by putting pixels all over the place but it sure looks cool.

[@johnuferbach9166]

google conway's game of life, it has like three rules and you can buold stuff like this with it

[@aurele2989]

Now that's some _impressive_ logic

[@otakuribo]

Okay I NEED a breakdown of how exactly this is working. How does the programming communicate with the display? Also is this what they mean when they say Conway's Game of Life is Turing complete?

[@carlphilippgaebler5704]

I haven't built anything like this in Life, but I know you can built logic gates... and I know from electronics that you can build memory flip-flops and counting circuits out of logic gates. So all they have to do is get the delays right, sending regular "increment" pulses to the counting circuit, having a little circuit to interpret the (binary?) number, calculate which segments should be "on" or "off," and make the change. Many parts of it are therefore very similar to a basic electronics project... but electricity travels much faster, so you don't have to worry about timing!

[@joefagan9335]

It means that anyting that's computable by any algorithms is computabe by Conway's game of life. EG It can compute any comptable function, play chess as well as deep blue (quite a bit slower), calculate digits of pi etc etc

[@Rouverius]

RIP John H Conway

[@DanielEspinel-h5y]

This is what separates Computer Scientists from the other software professions.

[@abdulmasaiev9024]

Madness. For anyone wanting to look into simulating electronics with cellular automata: the Game of Life might be the famous granddaddy, but have a look at Wireworlds. If someone made an electronic clock in that one, you COULD actually reliably pretend to know what's going on.

[@TheEgglet]

what happens after 8 hours

[@tryingtogetgood7739]

wow i didnt even think this could be possible. must have taken so much time to make.

[@Supertimegamingify]

The best visual programming language.

[@Oli1974]

Should be possible to run Doom in Game Of Life if it's apparently Turing complete. Probably would need immense computing power, but I'm waiting for the day somebody implements that!

[@stackercoding2054]

RIP the creator of this

[@caleborg5688]

copy and paste will always be there for you even when no one else is

[@Weathercold]

rip conway

[@pezcadron6364]

The hole live and purpose of a race is give the Time, freaking Rick Sánchez

[@anarchy8968]

I wonder if one could make life forms in this laws of physics. not the "dead" or "alive" states of pixels, I mean like cells that are able to replicate, eat (actually, energy isn't a thing in this physics, is it?), run genetic material, evolve, act againist entropy (it exists in this set of rules) and so on. It would probably be massive but would aldo be groundbreaking

[@bepsicat8545]

If you look away for a few seconds you miss the whole transformation! Yes I had to replay it 2 times...

[@TheFreakyFish251]

It would be interesting to see when it stops working. I’m assuming after an hour, but it could be earlier.

[@Noh_Mercy]

how do you make the dots between teh hr and minute without cells dying from overcrowding

[@LucidMlem]

Cool. Now make a calculator.

[@aaron5131]

RIP conway

[@insertnamehere8099]

It takes true genius to do something like this

[@Tod_x]

this is redstone

[@kubzone95]

I heard it's equivalent to Turing Machine, so is there any programming language built on it?

[@donutdude4174]

I wonder what a Quantum Ai Blockchain Eco-System could do with this tech

[@neoqueto]

It would be very streamlined for cloud-based big data & Internet of things start-ups

[@donutdude4174]

@@neoqueto indeed Any Computation for Hire using Blockchain (Quantum, Phonic, Neuralmorphic, Neural Network, Biological, Spintronics and future Computers) all used anywhere in the world for any WiFi/LiFi enabled devices resulting in a massive Cloud Network of Computers that anyone can buy/provide as a service for others for cryptos

[@ow_]

With a clock in a cellular automata system? We've had clocks for years

[@imnotnia]

All the possibilities regarding the future of computing and people still thinking in terms of buying and selling. We're doomed.

[@ow_]

@@imnotnia Oh, how dare people innovate for money! Do you drive a car? Do you use the internet? Do you watch ads? If you have said yes to any of these, you are supporting massive corporations and the government. Who cares? Capitalism has flaws but it's worked for years.

[@vull8375]

I swear, if anyone makes a building simulator, someone will make a clock in it.

[@ExperiencePath]

If you can be anything, what would you be ? A computer engineer ? no, a computer !

[@charliefranklin8523]

RIP Conway

[@fpv568]

Rip John Conway.

[@the_eternal_doomslayer]

My caveman brain can not even begin to realise how that is possible

[@derlulamoon]

You dominate one civilization for fun? Wow you are genius

[@beckettstevens9529]

When will Conway's Game of Life finally be recognized as an esoteric programming language?

[@blueice5408]

Is it real?. How could you make full circle without hollow in the middle. It should die because over crowded

[@Wifgargfhaurh]

Conway's game of life is fun until it starts spelling your full name and address

[@killmeister2271]

rest in pizza john f connway also nice clock bro

[@bidbux9500]

Who... Who has time to create this? I'm impressed and terrified.

[@skiggywiggy8386]

This is why cellular automata fascinates me

[@YamamotoTV2021]

24-hour version please!