Game of Life Cellular Automata

Andrew Adamatzky is a Professor in Unconventional Computing in the Department of Computer Science, and a member of Bristol Robotics Lab. He does research in reaction-diffusion computing, cellular automata, physarum computing, massive parallel computation, applied mathematics, collective intelligence and robotics.

From the reviews: "This volume's 27 papers offer some systematic methods and rigorous theorems that exhibit the study of Conway's game and its variations, emerging out of the realm of merely recreational mathematics. ... this unique book will have great value as both a state-of-the-art summary and a collection of proposals for new directions to explore. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals." (D. V. Feldman, Choice, Vol. 48 (4), December, 2010) "Andrew Adamatzky has assembled a superb collection of papers on Life that encompass work going back more than 20 years. ... maintains a good balance between interconnectedness and recognition of the papers as independent contributions. ... This book is a treasure trove of history, concepts, and models. It is a good starting place for a newcomer to the study of Conway's Game of Life, an opening of vistas for the amateur hobbyist, and a serious handbook for the professional researcher." (Anthony J. Duben, ACM Computing Reviews, February, 2011)

• to Cellular Automata and Conway’s Game of Life.- Historical.- Conway’s Game of Life: Early Personal Recollections.- Conway’s Life.- Life’s Still Lifes.- A Zoo of Life Forms.- Classical topics.- Growth and Decay in Life-Like Cellular Automata.- The B36/S125 “2x2” Life-Like Cellular Automaton.- Object Synthesis in Conway’s Game of Life and Other Cellular Automata.- Gliders and Glider Guns Discovery in Cellular Automata.- Constraint Programming to Solve Maximal Density Still Life.- Asynchronous, Continuous and Memory-Enriched Automata.- Larger than Life’s Extremes: Rigorous Results for Simplified Rules and Speculation on the Phase Boundaries.- RealLife.- Variations on the Game of Life.- Does Life Resist Asynchrony?.- LIFE with Short-Term Memory.- Localization Dynamics in a Binary Two-Dimensional Cellular Automaton: The Diffusion Rule.- Non-Orthogonal Lattices.- The Game of Life in Non-square Environments.- The Game of Life Rules on Penrose Tilings: Still Life and Oscillators.- A Spherical XOR Gate Implemented in the Game of Life.- Complexity.- Emergent Complexity in Conway’s Game of Life.- Macroscopic Spatial Complexity of the Game of Life Cellular Automaton: A Simple Data Analysis.- Physics.- The Enlightened Game of Life.- Towards a Quantum Game of Life.- Music.- Game of Life Music.- Computation.- Universal Computation and Construction in GoL Cellular Automata.- A Simple Universal Turing Machine for the Game of Life Turing Machine.- Computation with Competing Patterns in Life-Like Automaton.