Game of Life
Posted by Nico Golde in
software
Sunday, January 1. 2006
During the congress AK told me about the Game of Life
which imho is pretty interresting and makes alot of fun to watch the shapes that will arise in such a cellular automate.
A friend of him implemented a very complex software to do such simmulations in which you can create your own rules etc.
But the basic rules are just that the bit (animal or whatever) will die if less than 2 bits are in the environment because of lonelyness, more than 3 bits because of crowding
and a dead bit will come to life if exactly 3 bits are in the environment.
What I didn't know and I think most of the people don't know is that the famous hacker emblem
is a so-called glider which is just one example of a form of life which can be simulated in the game of life. The glider is special because of its
construction it will glide from one corner to the other.
So here is my small implementation for the glider (you have to edit source if you want to see something else):
http://nion.modprobe.de/gameoflife.c
which imho is pretty interresting and makes alot of fun to watch the shapes that will arise in such a cellular automate.
A friend of him implemented a very complex software to do such simmulations in which you can create your own rules etc.
But the basic rules are just that the bit (animal or whatever) will die if less than 2 bits are in the environment because of lonelyness, more than 3 bits because of crowding
and a dead bit will come to life if exactly 3 bits are in the environment.
What I didn't know and I think most of the people don't know is that the famous hacker emblem
is a so-called glider which is just one example of a form of life which can be simulated in the game of life. The glider is special because of its
construction it will glide from one corner to the other.
So here is my small implementation for the glider (you have to edit source if you want to see something else):
http://nion.modprobe.de/gameoflife.c
22C3
Posted by Nico Golde in
events
Sunday, January 1. 2006
The 22C3 is over and I think it was a nice event. But nevertheless in my opinion it worsened in comparison to the last year. But I dont want to rant about the "commercializations" of the congress others did before.
But the price imho is unacceptable, 75 Euro for 4 days. Last year 50 for 3 days. Ok Tim gave some reasons for the price but none of these are so important to increment it like this. But as said I don't want to rant, the reason why I say this is cause maybe it would be a better decision
to do a maybe not-as-professionel congress as this year (wlan was not working like every year
And if we talk about the price of this year, I know alot of people who quit this event because of it and it was clearly not as crowdy as in the last years.
A good decision was the smoking policy. Smoking was not prohibited but not tollerated in general. It was a social experiment. Everyone who wants to smoke can do this
but if others are pissed of they can please the person to smoke outside. And it worked, the air was more pleasant than in the years before but the smokers were not treated
like lepers.
Ah and thanks to the guy who placed hidden pieces of fish in the whole building, first I thought someone at the 9fans booth needs a shower
But the price imho is unacceptable, 75 Euro for 4 days. Last year 50 for 3 days. Ok Tim gave some reasons for the price but none of these are so important to increment it like this. But as said I don't want to rant, the reason why I say this is cause maybe it would be a better decision
to do a maybe not-as-professionel congress as this year (wlan was not working like every year
And if we talk about the price of this year, I know alot of people who quit this event because of it and it was clearly not as crowdy as in the last years.
A good decision was the smoking policy. Smoking was not prohibited but not tollerated in general. It was a social experiment. Everyone who wants to smoke can do this
but if others are pissed of they can please the person to smoke outside. And it worked, the air was more pleasant than in the years before but the smokers were not treated
like lepers.
Ah and thanks to the guy who placed hidden pieces of fish in the whole building, first I thought someone at the 9fans booth needs a shower
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