30-something years ago I was imagining our universe as a microscopic particle in a much more complex and larger universe, and it tortured me with fear. The idea of infinity was even more frightening, or even that there could be an edge with nothingness beyond. So I guess it was more comforting, although scary, thinking it was stack upon stack of larger and smaller universes enveloped in one another. The things that kept me fearfully petrified laying awake in bed as a child.
Most engineers don't have to take "Speed of Light Delay" into account when designing a simple digital clock. Kudos to whoever made this, for using such a weird system to their advantage in such a weird project.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Imagine if electronics only worked if the voltage propagation front had to arrive with Planck moment accuracy. We'd still be in the 'Are steam engines _really_ better than horses?' phase of history.
It’s been a big deal for a long time. We have it much easier nowadays. I can just write some HDL and hit a button, assuming my HDL is any good and I’m not being too ambitious with the clock speed. If your signal starts changing too early or finishes arriving too late, then your flip flop ends up being filled with garbage. I couldn’t imagine doing timing analysis by hand in the 60s, even for a little few thousand transistor CPU like the 6502
I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these? Do you know who I am? I'm the man whose gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!
So I knew that Conway’s game of life was turring complete and hence you could do anything with it but I didn’t think anyone was crazy enough put in the work of doing anything with it
@@the_netherqueen It is indeed! And some people on StackOverflow built a Tetris game in it in the best way possible: by building the hardware of a rudimentary computer, writing an assembly language that they could convert into a Game of Life pattern that computer understands, and then writing a programming language they could compile into that assembly language, and writing Tetris in that. codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/11880/build-a-working-game-of-tetris-in-conways-game-of-life
It amazes me that everything works even though everything is asynchronous (there are no latches) and everything is on one plane. Glider streams that aren't meant to interact have to be routed around each other or else timed so that there are never any collisions.
Very nice work. Good job. I would very much like to see a video describing the component parts and discussing how you organized it. Please tell us about how you built this.
i imagine that people who don't know what Conway's game of life is would find this video incredibly boring while people who do know are fucking gobsmacked because this shit is insane, well done!
Rest in peace, Conway. You gave mathematicians lots of your wisdom and us simple people an incredible toy which can be used even to make a computer inside a computer. Let your name live forever in the minds of the people.
Beautiful. Great job, this is just astounding. Understanding the entire mechanism of games and objects, then chaining them together and programing them to complete tasks that can make digital numbers. I never thought this gave could turn out to be this amazing.
It's stuff like this that I can't even begin to wrap my head around how this could've possibly been created. I'm sure like a lot of things, it's a bit more understandable when you break it down into small parts, but regardless there's no way this could ever be easy to make. If you know how chaotic these simulations can be, you know how incredible it is to not only make a large scale 'infinite' pattern, but for that pattern to also logically interact in order to execute a series of commands. So cool.
it's just a piece of excellence in any aspect you see it. engineering, programming skills, depth of thinking, you name it! my deepest respect! Is there any chance to get hands on the source code?
@@gcxs you definitely don't need anywhere near that amount, since that's millions of bytes (life blocks) and this uses a significantly less canvas size in comparison. This runs in the browser, too, from a tgol interpreter made by the same guy that got x86 in the browser. So it really wouldn't be that hard. Just stick a small display on, boot up chromium, and you're pretty much all set
@@EvilSandwich I would prefer to code in Z80 over the 6502 and I did do quite a bit in 6809 code. The 6809 was less well known than the 6502 but only because of the Apple computer's popularity. The architecture of the 6809 is superior to the 6502.
Madness. For anyone wanting to look into simulating electronics with cellular automata: the Game of Life might be the famous granddaddy, but have a look at Wireworlds. If someone made an electronic clock in that one, you COULD actually reliably pretend to know what's going on.
I have created many, many, initial conditions, aka rules, I can configure them symmetrical, non symmetrical, horizontal, and diagonal. I also have rules that are infinite. They never shrink, and they never die, they only evolve. Conway’s rule is too destructive, on average, it dies off faster than I can toast some bread in a toaster. There’s probably 50 different rules, I have created.
I don’t understand how it works is the speed of the clock just based off of how fast your computer can process the next step the pixels will take? Either way very impressive.
Imagine accidentally changing 1 pixel and then having the entire thing turn to chaos
the fine tuning of the universe we exist in...
@Dr Deuteron or prions
that's Life
Dr Deuteron
The removal of any 1 pixel :::-
digital mutation; cause by quantum anomalies!
Luke Palmer .....like a big jigsaw puzzle?
Or like the 1:1 earth in minecraft.
Imagine the sole purpose of your universe's existence is just to tell time in a higher dimension
Clocks all the way down
Ever heard of atoms ?
30-something years ago I was imagining our universe as a microscopic particle in a much more complex and larger universe, and it tortured me with fear. The idea of infinity was even more frightening, or even that there could be an edge with nothingness beyond. So I guess it was more comforting, although scary, thinking it was stack upon stack of larger and smaller universes enveloped in one another. The things that kept me fearfully petrified laying awake in bed as a child.
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Are you so sure that our's isn't?
Most engineers don't have to take "Speed of Light Delay" into account when designing a simple digital clock. Kudos to whoever made this, for using such a weird system to their advantage in such a weird project.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Imagine if electronics only worked if the voltage propagation front had to arrive with Planck moment accuracy.
We'd still be in the 'Are steam engines _really_ better than horses?' phase of history.
It is a real problem in modern cpu design.
It’s been a big deal for a long time. We have it much easier nowadays. I can just write some HDL and hit a button, assuming my HDL is any good and I’m not being too ambitious with the clock speed.
If your signal starts changing too early or finishes arriving too late, then your flip flop ends up being filled with garbage.
I couldn’t imagine doing timing analysis by hand in the 60s, even for a little few thousand transistor CPU like the 6502
I too sometimes use big words I don't understand to make myself sound more photosynthesis.
@@rr.studios Liking your own comment is rather uncouth.
This is what scicraft members would be doing if minecraft gets deleted
Exactly! xD
Like that's gonna happen
Minecraft will live on!
Exactly.
@@oitthegroit1297 Remember this comment in a few years
@@gatedrat6382 it's gonna last a while
after waching this video i feel myself like cave man living in 21 century =((
pavel v then you should watch Conways Game of Life made in itself
It’s the 21st century cave again, don’t worry.
oh hi yea dont live in 2021 turn away for life
so you're one of them people who builds clocks with the lemons that Conway gives them
when the game of life gives you lemons, arrange them in such a way that you can play DOOM on them
He doesn't even like lemons
Pffft. Burn Conway’s house down.
redpepper74 WITH THE LEMONS
I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these? Do you know who I am? I'm the man whose gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!
So I knew that Conway’s game of life was turring complete and hence you could do anything with it but I didn’t think anyone was crazy enough put in the work of doing anything with it
Wait Conway's is turring complete?
@@the_netherqueen It is indeed! And some people on StackOverflow built a Tetris game in it in the best way possible: by building the hardware of a rudimentary computer, writing an assembly language that they could convert into a Game of Life pattern that computer understands, and then writing a programming language they could compile into that assembly language, and writing Tetris in that.
codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/11880/build-a-working-game-of-tetris-in-conways-game-of-life
@@cyntheticconjurer Well that was a two-hour-long rabbit hole found via a sub-two-minute video, thank you for making me go down it.
There's an implmentation of Game of Life in Game of Life.
You can even write minecraft if you want lmao.
"Oh, an LED clock, nice - what crystal does it use?"
"You are dead to me."
"It uses glideronium."
me: makes glider gun and feels very proud (for copying one i found online)
this guy:
Same
So this is what geniuses and mathematicans plays all day long, I am not suprise.
Indeed. You are Nguyen Pham Thanh Giang
I myself would like to call myself a mathematician but this has made me less worthy of that title.
relatable
Not really mathematicians :p
Ikr
It amazes me that everything works even though everything is asynchronous (there are no latches) and everything is on one plane. Glider streams that aren't meant to interact have to be routed around each other or else timed so that there are never any collisions.
RIP John Conway, an incredible mathematician and person
Holy crap.... This is absolutely incredible.
Can we draw an f in the conways game of life to pay respects for John conway
Easy, use squares of 4 cells with 1 cell between them
:(
F
xkcd 2293
Draw an F:
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Very nice work. Good job. I would very much like to see a video describing the component parts and discussing how you organized it. Please tell us about how you built this.
Like looking at alien nanotechnology or something. Amazing. Could you add “SENSOR COOK”, “PIZZA ROLLS” and “4 SERVINGS”?
And if you put some food next to your pc it actually does cook it! From the explosion that is happening inside it!
Two number nines, a number nine large...
a number 6 with extra dip
two number fourty fives, one with cheese
i imagine that people who don't know what Conway's game of life is would find this video incredibly boring while people who do know are fucking gobsmacked because this shit is insane, well done!
Rip Conway :(
Ty youtube algorithm
This game always made me feel weird because this is how higher dimensional beings probably see us...
Category: sport?
:P
esport ?
Chess is a sport, my dear friend.
Recreational mathematics is a sport. Especially now that we're all quarantined..
it has been changed now
RIP Conway :(
Rest in peace, Conway. You gave mathematicians lots of your wisdom and us simple people an incredible toy which can be used even to make a computer inside a computer. Let your name live forever in the minds of the people.
Omg it's been awhile since I heard anyone messing with this, yet you come and make a freaking clock holy lord thats impressive
Genius. If only people could work on this full time!
Larry Panozzo maybe that's what some researchers back in 60s did!
Not exactly the same thing but you will find Dave Ackley's work interesting. ua-cam.com/users/DaveAckley
Beautiful. Great job, this is just astounding. Understanding the entire mechanism of games and objects, then chaining them together and programing them to complete tasks that can make digital numbers. I never thought this gave could turn out to be this amazing.
Rip john conway :(
Can’t believe Goncharov made this
you have zero right to be this awesome, jesus this must have taken a long time
This is probably the most blessed video I've seen in a long time
RIP Conway, such a brilliant man.
jaw dropping
This literally frightens me on some deep, existential level. Are we the constructs? How could we know?
"Like" for making me question my existance.
Conway couldn’t have imagined this when he was doing it on paper all those years ago.
Rest in peace Conway.
This looks incredible. Great work👏👏👏
imagine being a cell without knowing that it is only part of a clock. Maybe we are part of a clock...
Uh-oh time for an existential crisis.
No, we're part of a program to determine the question.
Maybe the universe is a small particle for omega species. And we are part of an atom, to them!
It's stuff like this that I can't even begin to wrap my head around how this could've possibly been created. I'm sure like a lot of things, it's a bit more understandable when you break it down into small parts, but regardless there's no way this could ever be easy to make. If you know how chaotic these simulations can be, you know how incredible it is to not only make a large scale 'infinite' pattern, but for that pattern to also logically interact in order to execute a series of commands.
So cool.
This is incredible I didn't know you could practically make functional things in GoL you even have the PM in the corner!
Damn. The amount of work it took to make this...
The animation is beautiful and so damn smooth!
I wish I could even comprehend what went through the creators mind when making this
Most likely Ritalin and lots of it.
@@ezekielbrockmann114real
Просто невероятная работа, очень восхищает! Представить сложно, сколько времени и просчетов на это ушло
This man has way too much time and dedication
No way!.. we need more videos about this!
Wow Mr. Gorbachev you certainly have a lot of time on your hands
If humanity can make a working clock over a bunch of cells, then a full-pledged working computer completely run by Conway GoL might be possible.
it's just a piece of excellence in any aspect you see it. engineering, programming skills, depth of thinking, you name it! my deepest respect! Is there any chance to get hands on the source code?
RIP John Conway. You was a great mathematician х_х
were*
As Conway said, if a machine is unpredictable, it can do anything
Rest In Peace Conway
Would be nice to make a table clock out of this (Raspberry Pi + screen).
with 32gb ram
@@gcxs you definitely don't need anywhere near that amount, since that's millions of bytes (life blocks) and this uses a significantly less canvas size in comparison. This runs in the browser, too, from a tgol interpreter made by the same guy that got x86 in the browser. So it really wouldn't be that hard. Just stick a small display on, boot up chromium, and you're pretty much all set
To really see what’s going on, you’d need a pretty big screen, wouldn’t you?
haha this is literally what I thought of doing as soon as i saw this!
The most bloated, unnecessary and overengineered clock!
I loved it lets make one!
And there was me all those years ago proud that I'd written Game Of Life in machine code for my ZX Spectrum :D
I need to learn Z80 someday. I'm a 6502 boy myself lol
@@EvilSandwich I would prefer to code in Z80 over the 6502 and I did do quite a bit in 6809 code. The 6809 was less well known than the 6502 but only because of the Apple computer's popularity. The architecture of the 6809 is superior to the 6502.
I can't even begin to imagine to complexity of this.
RIP conway
Now you gotta make it so that the little squares can do machine learning so it can create the clock on its own.
Even if they had machine learning they couldn't because, y'know, Conway's game of life has rules.
I heard it's equivalent to Turing Machine, so is there any programming language built on it?
When quarantine kicks in
The pixels are so smart
I can't find the program you used for the Game of Life, could someone tell me?
You are a GENIUS!!!! :)))
wow i didnt even think this could be possible. must have taken so much time to make.
Which program were you using?
Now that's some _impressive_ logic
It takes true genius to do something like this
how do you make the dots between teh hr and minute without cells dying from overcrowding
RIP Conway.
You got my subscribe, that is so cool
This is incredible.
Imagine the feeling you'd get after you build something this complicated AND IT WORKS!
What. The. Heck! ... I am officially amazed oO
That is really cool!
Holy cow that's amazing
This is insane!
rip conway
What are those buttons in the top left actually doing?
Imagine being able to do this but not having anyone who could understand what you're talking about
what program do you use?
Omg, Is Conway’s GoL Turing complete?
RIP John H Conway
what do you use to make this?
The best visual programming language.
F, rest in peace John Conway.
yes, of course
the most practical thing ever
this guy is a chad.
the mayor chad
Madness. For anyone wanting to look into simulating electronics with cellular automata: the Game of Life might be the famous granddaddy, but have a look at Wireworlds. If someone made an electronic clock in that one, you COULD actually reliably pretend to know what's going on.
awesome congrat
oh man it's incredible
RIP Conway
You know, he made graduate
This is why cellular automata fascinates me
I have created many, many, initial conditions, aka rules, I can configure them symmetrical, non symmetrical, horizontal, and diagonal. I also have rules that are infinite. They never shrink, and they never die, they only evolve. Conway’s rule is too destructive, on average, it dies off faster than I can toast some bread in a toaster. There’s probably 50 different rules, I have created.
This would be how alien bug races would build computers
copy and paste will always be there for you even when no one else is
best 12 seconds of my life
I don’t understand how it works is the speed of the clock just based off of how fast your computer can process the next step the pixels will take? Either way very impressive.
Ok, I'm impressed
I simulated Conway's Game Of Life on a Calculator and turned 2D pixel graphics into 3D voxel-like graphics on a touchscreen, both by accident
That is beautiful
That's persistence.
Conway's game of clock