| Project 3 –
Conway’s Game of Life |
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| v | A
kind of cellular automaton |
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| v | Proposed
by the mathematician John Conway in |
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| 1970. |
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| v | Complex
behavior emerges from simple rules. |
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| v | The
Game of Life itself is not a realistic simulation of |
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| any
actual phenomenon |
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| v | However,
researchers have used cellular automata to |
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| model
the spread of weeds, fire, urban sprawl, and |
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| other
phenomena |
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