Mushroom! Mushroom!

February 10, 2005 9:50 PM

Mushroom Life
posted by loquacious (16 comments total)

this is intresting how?
posted by delmoi at 10:04 PM on February 10, 2005

This is very cool! (delmoi must not like mushrooms)
posted by Robot Johnny at 10:06 PM on February 10, 2005

...but what's with the Conway Twitty tag? A John Conway joke gone bad?
posted by Robot Johnny at 10:09 PM on February 10, 2005

has anyone gotten to the part where the smurfs carve out their homes?
posted by blendor at 10:22 PM on February 10, 2005

Conway Twitty?! *thwaps malfunctioning headbone*

I have no idea where that came from. The part of my brain that attempts to remember celebrities and personalities is horribly malformed. Not the first time I've goofed like that. Now I really wish I could edit my tags. The sad thing is is that I triple-checked my tags before posting.

blendor: I'm still waiting for my citizens to learn Architecture, but then they haven't even discovered Geometry yet.
posted by loquacious at 10:34 PM on February 10, 2005

My goodness these are creepy. I like them a lot.
posted by painquale at 10:39 PM on February 10, 2005

Oops, I meant to post that last comment in the Lewsi Carroll thread. These mushrooms aren't creepy. They are neat, though!
posted by painquale at 10:41 PM on February 10, 2005

'Lewis', I mean. That's it, I give up. Time to go to bed.
posted by painquale at 10:42 PM on February 10, 2005

Very sweet!! My cat has ringworm and I have noticed similar paterns..

He's getting medication..
posted by Balisong at 10:53 PM on February 10, 2005

Inside: John Conway's Game of Life. Other games invented by John Conway: Clever Games for Clever People
posted by growabrain at 11:31 PM on February 10, 2005

Where are the badgers?
posted by arse_hat at 11:42 PM on February 10, 2005

I seeded (spored) five connecting squares. It went on for 218 iterations before it reached a periodic state.

Class 3 baby!
posted by sourwookie at 12:04 AM on February 11, 2005

Oooh, a snaaaake!
posted by ludwig_van at 12:11 AM on February 11, 2005

This is different than any other Game of Life sim I've seen in that it gives you a sense of how long specific squares have been inhabited, which is something I really like. And I really like mushrooms in general, so thanks for this cool toy loquacious.
posted by baphomet at 7:47 AM on February 11, 2005

Yeah, I like the time domain aspect of this version of GoL and the other one linked there. They're both simple, but mesmerizing.
posted by loquacious at 8:27 AM on February 11, 2005

Now if I could just integrate this with my Go playing software, I could go entirely mad in about 2 hours.
posted by bartleby at 7:32 PM on February 13, 2005