LifeWiki

LifeWiki is a wiki dedicated to Conway's Game of Life.[1][2] It hosts over 2000 articles on the subject[3] and a large collection of Life patterns stored in a format based on run-length encoding[4] that it uses to interoperate with other Life software such as Golly.[5]

LifeWiki was founded in 2009 by Nathaniel Johnston, a professor of mathematics and computer science at Mount Allison University, as part of the ConwayLife site founded in 2008 by Johnston.[5][6] It serves as a focal point for one of the many mathematical communities John Horton Conway's work brought into being,[7] a starting point for Life enthusiasts to learn about new developments in Life patterns,[8] and a comprehensive listing of the many forms of emergent behavior that Life patterns are now known to have.[9]

References
  1. Martínez, Genaro J.; Seck-Tuoh-Mora, Juan C.; Zenil, Hector (2013). "Wolfram's Classification and Computation in Cellular Automata Classes III and IV". In Zenil, Hector (ed.). Irreducibility and Computational Equivalence: 10 Years After Wolfram's A New Kind of Science. Emergence, Complexity and Computation. Berlin & Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 237–259. arXiv:1208.2456. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-35482-3_17.; see footnote, p. 245 (p. 10 of arXiv version): "An excellent forum on GoL is 'LifeWiki'".
  2. Alessandrini, Paolo. "Capitolo 10". Bestiario matematico: Mostri e strane creature nel regno dei numeri (in Italian). Hoepli Editore. ISBN 9788836005291.
  3. Roberts, Siobhan (December 28, 2020). "The Lasting Lessons of John Conway's Game of Life". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2021-11-19.
  4. Downey, Allen B.; Mayfield, Chris (2019). Think Java: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist (2nd ed.). O'Reilly Media. pp. 231–233. ISBN 9781492072478.
  5. "Golly Help: Credits". Golly. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  6. Johnston, Nathaniel. "My websites". Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  7. Senechal, Marjorie (2021). "John Conway and mathematical communities". The Mathematical Intelligencer. 43 (2): 73–75. doi:10.1007/s00283-021-10067-9. MR 4278478.
  8. Poundstone, William (2013). The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge. Dover Books on Science (2nd ed.). Courier Corporation. p. 234. ISBN 9780486490984.
  9. Veale, Tony; Cook, Mike (2018). Twitterbots: Making Machines that Make Meaning. MIT Press. p. 336. ISBN 9780262346443.
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