Alastair McBain 
Hmm, what to print...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaaUhuobl1U
#JohnConway #ConwaysGameOfLife #ThermalPrinter #ThermalPrinting
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William DentonI was looking into frieze patterns, which are "symmetries of plane patterns that repeat infinitely in one direction only" (and could be used in architectural friezes). John Conway did work on them, and it's always a delight to see his approach to things.
These are from The Symmetries of Things by Conway, Burgiel and Goodman-Strauss (2008).
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️A New Pyramid-Like Shape Always Lands the Same Side Up
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-pyramid-like-shape-always-lands-the-same-side-up-20250625
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44381297
* tetrahedron: simplest Platonic solid
* mathematicians made one that’s stable only on one side
* confirms decades-old conjecture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid
#math #polyhedra #tetrahedron #balance #JohnConway #PlatonicSolids
Sci-books.comSphere Packings, Lattices and Groups (Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, 290) 3rd Edition by John Conway (PDF)
Author: John Conway
File Type: PDF
Download at https://sci-books.com/sphere-packings-lattices-and-groups-grundlehren-der-mathematischen-wissenschaften-290-3rd-edition-0387985859/
#Algebra, #JohnConway
Author: John Conway
File Type: PDF
Download at https://sci-books.com/sphere-packings-lattices-and-groups-grundlehren-der-mathematischen-wissenschaften-290-3rd-edition-0387985859/
#Algebra, #JohnConway
the roamerYeah, such a witty and warmhearted portrait of a warmhearted true mathematician. There are many recorded lectures and interviews with the man around, all worth listening to.
I was about 10 when Conway's Life became widely known, and it got me. I spent days on end filling graph paper with experimental Life evolutions (no computers then, of course). I once tried to understand his On Numbers and Games but failed. His little textbook on Automata is lovely. A great man.
Norobiik @This #CellularAutomata game has since become known as Conway's #GameOfLife and famous for the extraordinary complexity that emerges within it. This #ComputationalUniverse is home to beacons that flash, pulsars that beat time and "gliders" and "spaceships" that fly across the computational sky. #JohnConway
Mathematicians Prove the "Omniperiodicity" of Conway's Game of Life
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/mathematicians-prove-the-omniperiodicity-of-conways-game-of-life
tripuReading about really intelligent people like #JohnConway makes one feel minuscule.
Jim Donegan 🎵 ✅How '#ParticleLife# #Emerges from #Simplicity
"Particle Life' is a very simple particle #System. The simulation shows the emergence of incredibly beautiful life-like structures from rudimentary rules."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4YirERTVF0&ab_channel=TomMohr
#Emergence #Math #Maths #Mathematics #Rules #PhaseTransition #PhaseTransitions #Science #Evolution #TomMohr #GameOfLife #TheGameOfLife #JohnConway
How Particle Life emerges from simplicity
RanaldClouston#FinishedReading a biography of #JohnConway by @sioroberts while laid up sick in bed. To be frank, Conway is a rather full-on and exhausting character to spend a full book with while under the weather, but the book gives a great sense of his key ideas (not just Life, which he grew to resent), particularly in the search for finite simple sporadic groups, his style, and millieu. #AmReading
Ste CookInfinitely recursive Conway’s Game of Life. https://oimo.io/works/life/
