Cubic Life: Conway's Game of Life in 3D

heyitsguay · 2024-04-23T00:00:32

Nice!! I had a lot of fun with a project like this with some more generalized rulesets. This video got the most views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW9Q0qMc2Xc (just running 3d Brian's Brain) but I like this one the most, with a much more general ruleset: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoJvS6GuM3c&t=90s

The code is here: https://github.com/heyitsguay/gol3d

I keep meaning to go back and create an automated ruleset explorer that looks for stable but non-oscillating and non-constant population counts. Maybe someday...

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HankB99 · 2024-04-23T01:17:56

I wonder if the 3D version exhibits behaviors similar to the 2D version, including periodic patterns.

I also have to link my favorite pattern, XKCD's homage to John Conway: https://xkcd.com/2293/

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heyitsguay · 2024-04-23T02:12:26

Certain rules do, though the exact analog rule of Conway's Game of Life is a bit boring as i recall. In general it was a lot easier to find interesting behavior in Brian's Brain rulesets.

ellis0n · 2024-04-23T01:56:28

I wonder how complex a simulator of the Game of Life 3D itself would be? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39799755

teaearlgraycold · 2024-04-23T00:18:00

Looks cool, although when I run it the simulation always seems to halt after a couple dozen steps.

hoseja · 2024-04-23T11:04:57

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwYGgNebf_w Now do it in 5D

tombert · 2024-04-23T04:23:08

A friend of mine made something like this in WebGL for a computer graphics class a few years ago. I thought it was pretty neat.

meling · 2024-04-23T02:17:06

This could be fun to view on an Apple Vision Pro or other similar device.

aj7 · 2024-04-23T01:47:18

Imagine. And all that work trying to derive physics from TWO dimensional finite automata.