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A Change I Can Not ReverseI used to live in my head,
Because I didn't want to convene on that level,
With anyone I met,
Because it is beyond comprehension,
I want to return to that state of mind,
Because I was more of myself then,
I only had myself to worry about,
Because I was floating on a cloud,
I had a consciousness high,
Because I understood everything,
Not that I have lost that aptitude,
But I didn't change for myself.

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It's survival of the blocks! Evolution in a primitive instant, I'd say.

Rules:
If a block has three neighbors, it survives.
If it has less, it dies from being oh so lonely.
If it has more, it dies from all the partying.
If there's a dead block with three lively neighbors, it pops back into existence.

I made the pattern, and you can find Golly here.

Thanks to Vsauce for sharing awesome!
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~Jaderlif Jun 21, 2012
How did you decide on the starting formation?

Also, this is pretty fascinating for me; it really appeals to my analytical side. I've always enjoyed taking a pattern or a set of rules and applying them over and over to see the results. There's always something interesting to learn from seemingly simple logical endeavors like this, and I totally agree with it representing evolution in a primitive state. Through that, one might apply different societal meaning to each instance of growth, separation, and then disappearance or stabilization of each group of blocks, much as you have done with the partying/loneliness metaphor.

Stemming from the idea of repeated patterns/rules, this animation could be looked at as an 8-bit 4th-dimensional fractal as viewed on a 2-dimensional plane...

...by a 3rd-dimensional being...

...in an 11-dimensional existence.

But yea, how did you determine the conditions at the very beginning? That's the ultimate question...
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*melodiousglenndog May 11, 2012  Hobbyist Writer
Whoa....I'm dizzy!!
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~Iplywittrees May 11, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Why's that? :O
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*melodiousglenndog May 11, 2012  Hobbyist Writer
I think I stared at the blocks too long :-)
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~Iplywittrees May 11, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Maybe. :) I catch myself looking at the patterns for their symmetry. Like waves, beginning where they end, infinitely.
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=ladycompassion May 10, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Awesome...nifty....coolness!:icononichewplz:
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~Iplywittrees May 10, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
... ... Promptly stop eating my head. :giggle: Thanks.

Thought you'd like it. :)
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=ladycompassion May 10, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
It expresses my....err....affection:iconhandsomeonionplz:
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~Iplywittrees May 11, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Oh my...
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