a friend was showing me some cool explorations of cellular automata (like conway's game of life)

i had some ideas that i thought may have been novel and i assumed this was relatively unexplored but it turns out there is so much crazy stuff people have uncovered and way more interest than i had expected

which i actually find more motivating than i originally was worried it would prove to be

this site has so much interesting stuff but unfortunately the interactive database seems to be down

there also seems to be a thriving community and wiki here

it's crazy to me that so many people are still interested in it today when it was discovered 50 years ago

but still i am interested in looking at different game of life rulesets and automatically classifying the outcomes of certain rulesets (whether they converge to nothing or flickering, remain chaotic, or somewhere in between like conway's game of life)

the community seems more focused on discovering/creating creatures within conway's game of life (among lots of other things) which is less interesting to me