{"id":705,"date":"2013-08-20T16:01:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T08:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/?p=705"},"modified":"2024-02-16T21:12:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T13:12:48","slug":"conways-game-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/conways-game-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Conway&#8217;s Game Of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>[This is a back-issue of one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/newsletter\">this site&#8217;s newsletters<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Just when you thought Conway&#8217;s Game Of Life held no more surprises, there&#8217;s&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; what&#8217;s that? What&#8217;s &#8220;Conway&#8217;s Game Of Life:? If you&#8217;ve never met Conway&#8217;s Game Of Life, you&#8217;re missing out on one of the most fascinating bits of math around. Google it, download a Life simulator, and play&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ok, let&#8217;s start that again &#8211; just when you thought Conway&#8217;s Game Of Life held no more surprises, some genius has figured out how to make Conway&#8217;s Game Of Life simulate Conway&#8217;s Game Of Life.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video and be astounded:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xP5-iIeKXE8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><embed width=\"425\" height=\"344\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xP5-iIeKXE8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Yours,<br \/>\nMichael Hartley<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\">Dr Mike&#8217;s Math\u00a0Games for Kids<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[This is a back-issue of one of this site&#8217;s newsletters] Just when you thought Conway&#8217;s Game Of Life held no more surprises, there&#8217;s&#8230;. &#8230; what&#8217;s that? What&#8217;s &#8220;Conway&#8217;s Game Of Life:? If you&#8217;ve never met Conway&#8217;s Game Of Life, you&#8217;re missing out on one of the most fascinating bits of math around. Google it, download &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/conways-game-of-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Conway&#8217;s Game Of Life<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[464,100,465],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}