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self_awareness 3 hours ago

That's not a "physical" version of game of life -- that's a digital version, like every version, but with bigger pixels.

Cthulhu_ 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Does make me wonder if it's possible to make a physical / analog / mechanical version of Game of Life.

fake edit: yes, kind of: https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/forums/topic/164622-moc-mec...

zabzonk an hour ago | parent [-]

sure is - i made one using poker chips and a chessboard - i had to do the computations using my own brain though :-(

https://latedev.wordpress.com/2011/06/25/a-poker-chip-comput...

gspr 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think "physical" refers to the fact that you initialize the state by pressing physical buttons. That's quite accurate.