Life in life

A video of Conway’s Game of Life, emulated in Conway’s Game of Life. The Life pattern is the OTCA Metapixel: - for more information, see The life simulator used is Golly - which has a built-in script to generate these metapixel grids (select a pattern, and choose ““ from the scripts list). Inspired by this video: but with the speed and scale varying smoothly over time, rather than in discrete jumps as the original video did. The actual video is exported from Golly using a custom Python script: (since Golly built-in only supports rendering the view with a scale which is a power of 2, for performance reasons - this is not a particularly well-optimised or fast script to run). The audio track used to be a Shepard Tone, but that was horrible, so I replaced it with some of the music in YouTube’s library (Jingle Punks - Back of the Room Hang)... if you really want to hear the original version, it is over here: