When was the last time we talked about cellular automata? Months, maybe a year. Anyway, as we came out of a shop earlier, my son said “would the Game of Life be different if it was played on rectangles?” It turns out he was thinking about the floor we were on. So this afternoon… (next post)

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This afternoon we made the pattern on a Lego board and he picked some rules. We used red/pink bricks for alive cells. We made a few iterations until we ran out of time.

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@peterrowlett in fact that tiling is equivalent to a hexagonal grid, isn't it?
@DaniLaura yeah, that sounds plausible.