Life in life
Phillip Bradbury · 6 HN recommendations
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A two-minute video of Conway's Game of Life running inside Conway's Game of Life, built from OTCA metapixels and Golly. It zooms smoothly between scales.
Why HN recommends it: The canonical visual for nested simulation, Turing completeness and self-reference; HN readers call it mind-blowing and reach for it constantly.
“here's a famous and really clear sub-2 minutes representation of the scales involved” Read on HN ↗