>At 7:08 PM +0100 3/8/01, Thomas Jentzsch wrote:
>>BTW: I remember a lot of different rules for Life, what
>>are the original ones?
>
>2-3-3-3 if I remember right... Meaning 2 or 3 surrounding
>live cells would sustain life, and 3 or 3 (min/max, not
>redundant in other rules) surrounding live cells will spawn
>life. I should be able to dig out some old newsletters to
>confirm this if need be. I think other "reasonable" rules
>may have been stated in an issue or two, but many other
>numbers are unstable.
FWIW, that's the way I remember classic Life too, and that's how the Life
in the Microsoft Entertainment Pack (the version I'm most familiar with)
works. And I think you typoed - it's 3 cells adjacent to an empty (not
live) cell that spawns life.
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