A short documentary on Conway's Game of Life, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its original publication on the October 1970 issue of Scientific American.
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:00:39 - Conway's Game of Life
00:05:55 - Logic Gates
00:12:31 - Turing Completeness
00:18:14 - Conclusion
00:20:26 - Credits
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Script, Voice, Editing: Alan Zucconi
Script Supervision: James Donohue
"Life in Life" segment inspired by @mrphlip
Conway patter by xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2293/
Music: Jingle Punks - "Back of the Room Hang"
Music: C418 - "Cat" (Minecraft Volume Alpha)
This video was made possible by the support of many patrons on Patreon.
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(1) https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...
(2) http://cba.mit.edu/events/03.11.ASE/d...
(3) https://www.conwaylife.com/w/index.ph...
(4) https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/80...
(5) • [Minecraft Computer Engineering] - Qu... by @legomasta99
(6) • BABA IS LIFE v1: Conway's Game of Lif... by Devin Danko
(7) https://doi.org/10.1112/plms/s2-42.1.230
(8) https://link.springer.com/chapter/10....
(9) https://www.nicolasloizeau.com/gol-co...
(10) https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/qu...
(11) https://www.theguardian.com/science/2...
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