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Ferenc Nagy
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Life game

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Many thanx to everybody who have answered my questions emerged during the development of my wiki contribution, the Life game http://wiki.visual-prolog.com/index.php ... :Life_Game, from November 2015 to present.
Detailed description in progress.
TIA, Regards,
Frank Nagy
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is this Game play?
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The game has three outcomes:
1) All inhabitants die out.
2) You achieve a steady state.
3) The picture of earlier generation is repeating i.e. the film is periodic.

Fourth possibility does not exist because the grid and the number of possible states of its cells is finite.

Change the rules for birth and death, and try again:
If an empty cell has two inhabited neighbors it becomes inhabited.
If an inhabited cell has exactly 3 inhabited neigbors then the central cell becomes empty.
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Initial state
<br />birth_condition([1,2]).
<br />death_condition([5,6,7,8]).
Initial state
birth_condition([1,2]).
death_condition([5,6,7,8]).
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Final state
Final state
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TIA, Regards,
Frank Nagy
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