Game Of Life

Properties
Section	Life
Spawn temperature	8726.85°C
Heat Conductivity	16%
Relative weight	100
Gravity	0
Acid dissolve rate	0%
Flammability	0
State	Solid
Misc properties
Source code

LIFE это элемент, который представляет из себя различные клеточные автоматы. Все эти наборы правил могут быть найдены в меню "жизни".

Все кнопки в меню "жизни" создают частицу LIFE, но с разным ctype, который определяет каким правилам подчиняется частица.

Powder Toy также имеет ещë один КА, не описанный здесь, но его описание отсутствует здесь из-за особой механики работы - WireWorld (WWLD).

Game of Life

Правило: 23/3

Ссылка на Wiki: [1]

Этот элемент соответствует оригинальной игре "жизнь" от Джона Конвея, которая является самой старой по сравнению с остальными КА в Powder Toy. В ней можно создавать гигантских размеров механизмы, и хоть игровое поле довольно сильно ограничено в размерах, множество интересных вещей всë ещë может быть построено в TPT.

Каждый кадр каждый пиксель просчитывается компьютером, который смотрит количество живых соседних клеток у каждой частицы. Если живая клетка окружена 2 или 3 другими живыми клетками, то она остаëтся живой и на следующем кадре, в ином же случае клетка умирает. Если же клетка пуста и окружена ровно 3 живыми соседями, то на следующем кадре эта клетка тоже становится живой. Такие простые правила приводят к довольно сложному поведению.

Фигуры, остающиеся неподвижными и неизменными со временем, называются натюрмортами. Если фигура неподвижна и периодически повторяет свою изначальную форму, то она называется осциллятором. А если фигура способна передвигаться, полностью повторяя свои прежние формы, то она зовëтся космическим кораблём. Есть множество других типов фигур, для более подробного ознакомления советуем посетить LifeWiki. Выше перечисленные названия были придуманы для оригинальной игры "жизнь", но могут применяться и для других клеточных автоматов.

Цифры первого числа в правиле КА обозначают количество соседей, при которых клетка выживает, цифры же второго числа обозначают количество соседей, при которых рождается новая клетка. Также, такие клеточные автоматы как Star Wars, Frog, Frog 2 и т.д, имеют дополнительное число в правиле, показывающее, сколько кадров подряд способна пережить живая клетка в смертельных условиях.

High Life

Rulestring: 23/36

The same as GOL but with one extra rule. High Life particles survive if surrounded by 2 or 3 particles, and come to life if surrounded by 3 or 6 particles. Because of the extra "6", there is an interesting spaceship and replicator that is unique to Highlife. Other than that, high life and GOL are very similar [2]

Assimilation

Rulestring: 4567/345

Assimilation particles survive if surrounded by 4, 5, 6, or 7 particles, and come to life if surrounded by 3, 4, or 5 particles. The result is a diamond-generating ruleset that can usually perfectly regenerate into its original shape if a large portion is deleted. Diamonds of ASIM can also absorb "fizzy" patterns, which makes them larger.

2×2

Rulestring: 125/36

2×2 particles survive if surrounded by 1, 2, or 5 particles, and come to life if surrounded by 3 or 6 particles. The result is particles which tend to make surprisingly geometric patterns when produced in even squares or lines. These oscillators can be made with 2×4 rectangles, 2×8 rectangles, 2×12 rectangles and so on.

For more information on 2×2, please visit [3]

Day and Night

Rulestring: 34578/3678

Day and Night particles survive if surrounded by 3, 4, 6, 7, or 8 particles, and come to life if surrounded by 3, 6, 7, or 8 particles. The result is an exotic particle who's physical properties are exactly inversed both in floodfilled areas and empty ones. In other words, the same patterns can appear inside of a solid block of Day and Night as outside of it, hence its name.

Amoeba

Rulestring: 1358/357

Amoeba particles live up to their name, sloshing around figuratively speaking, producing a peculiar mess of splashy patterns. The result is what looks surprisingly like... Amoebas. Amoeba particles survive if surrounded by 1, 3, 5, or 8 particles, and come to life if surrounded by 3, 5, or 7 particles.

One cool property demonstrated by amoeba is that whenever one draws a perfectly straight line form left to right, or up to down, a fractal triangle is produced.

Move

Rulestring: 245/368

Move particles don't move anything... besides themselves. They survive if surrounded by 2, 4, or 5 particles, and come to life if surrounded by 3, 6, or 8 particles. The result is a particle that makes patterns that are adept at... moving. The patterns its makes tend to die off rather quickly from random soup, however.

Pseudo Life

Rulestring: 238/357

Pseudo Life produces patterns that look superficially like normal GOL, hence its name. Particles of Pseudo Life survive if surrounded by 2, 3, or 8 particles, and come to life if surrounded by 3, 5, or 7 particles.

Diamoeba

Rulestring: 5678/35678

Diamoeba particles are peculiar indeed. They're like a half-way step between Amoeba and Assimilation particles, producing irregular diamond shapes that lean towards gently disappearing on their own. They can survive when surrounded by 5, 6, 7, or 8 particles, and come back to life if surrounded by 3, 5, 6, 7, or 8 particles.

An interesting rectangular pattern is created when creating a perpendicular straight line.

34

Rulestring: 34/34

34 Life particles are an exploding-type particle that can be used to make certain types of useful patterns, but tend towards exploding randomly bigger and bigger if made much larger. 34 Life particles survive if surrounded by 3 or 4 particles, and come to life if surrounded by 3 or 4 particles (hence its name.)

Long Life

Rulestring: 5/345

Long Life particles actually don't resemble normal Life particles, being an alien type all their own. They tend to generate diamond shaped oscillators that essentially become stable and never die. Long Life particles survive when surrounded by only 5 particles, but come to life when surrounded by 3, 4, or 5 particles.

Stains

Rulestring: 235678/3678

Stains particles are an exploding-type pattern that tends to splash outwards from its point of origin in predictable patterns in solid fill. Stain particles survive when surrounded by 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, or 8 particles, and come back to life when surrounded by 3, 6, 7, or 8 particles.

Seeds

Rulestring: /2

An exploding rule in which every cell dies in every generation. It has many simple orthogonal spaceships, though it is in general difficult to create patterns that don't explode.

Maze

Rulestring: 12345/3

An exploding rule that crystalizes to form maze-like designs. If you put a square of MAZE with a side length of 15 or more, it will grow infinitely.

Coagulations

Rulestring: 235678/378

An exploding rule in which patterns tend to expand forever, producing a thick "goo" as it does so.

Walled cities

Rulestring: 2345/45678

A stable rule that forms centers of pseudo-random activity separated by walls.

Gnarl

Rulestring: 1/1

A simple exploding rule that forms complex patterns from even a single live cell. Expands rapidly by itself.

Replicator

Rulestring: 1357/1357

An exploding rule in which every pattern is a replicator.

However, this is not a unique property of the rule string, as many others like Fredkin and Replicator 2 replicate, though they are not included in The Powder Toy.

The reason why every pattern in this rule is a replicator is complicated, but here is the link,

[4]

Mystery

Rulestring: 05678/3458

Similar to diamoeba.

It is the only life variant in TPT that can survive with 0 surrounding cells.

Star Wars

Rulestring: 3456/278/6

The 6 at the end means that if a Star Wars particle dies, it stays for 6 frames, and dissapears, instead of going away instantly. The 'dying' particle is not counted as a neighbor, and nothing can be born into that space until it dies. The dying particle will also turn from a dark blue to a much brighter blue as it dies.

Living on the Edge

Rulestring: 3458/37/4

Like Star wars, a LOTE pixel will survive for an extra 4 frames after it 'dies', those pixels will change color from a red to a yellow when this occurs.

Brian 6

Rulestring: 6/246/3

BRAN particles tend to form 'glider'(those things that look like spaceships) formations consisting of a 2 pixel by 2 pixel square and various trailing pieces. It is very hard if not impossible to make stable patterns

Frogs

Rulestring: 12/34/3

FROG formations sometimes result in gliders that move slowly across the screen, somewhat like frogs

Like Frogs Rule

Rulestring: 124/3/3

Similar to FROG, but less stable.

Custom GOL

Add a new custom GOL type. Use ctrl+shift+rightclick to remove them.

How it works

All kinds of GOL particles use Temperature to display in heat mode how long it's been since a particle has been born. A LIFE particle is always born at the highest possible temperature, and gently falls to the lowest temperature until it's destroyed by any means. In other words, the newer a particle is, the hotter it will be. Watch GOL on heat view and you will see that older particles slowly fade to blue while newer ones remain pink.

You can abuse this property to heat other elements, but otherwise it doesn't have much use. Generally, oscillators are used as heaters, still lifes are used as coolers.