From: Arno Siebes (arno@inf.rl.ac.uk)
Date: Fri May 21 1993 - 15:39:23 UTC
Dear Reader, I'm very new to this area, so my questions may be utterly stupid, please do not feel offended. It is well-known, at least even I know it, that Conway's life has universal computational power. My question is, what is known if the grid is finite? It could be either a simple finite plane, a torus; in fact, it even may have a higher dimension. The second question, which is related to the first, what is known about a Life-like system, with a finite grid as above, but in which the topology can be changed (that is, cells can acquire new neighbours and discard other)? Pointers to the literature, as well as summaries/ideas etc. are all equally wellcome. Thanks, Arno Siebes arno@inf.rl.ac.uk arno@cwi.nl
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