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Default First Self-Replicating Creature Spawned In Conway's Game of Life

Calopteryx writes "New Scientist has a story on a self-replicating entity which inhabits the mathematical universe known as the Game of Life. 'Dubbed Gemini, [Andrew Wade's] creature is made of two sets of identical structures, which sit at either end of the instruction tape. Each is a fraction of the size of the tape's length but, made up of two constructor arms and one "destructor," play a key role. Gemini's initial state contains three of these structures, plus a fourth that is incomplete. As the simulation progresses the incomplete structure begins to grow, while the structure at the start of the tape is demolished. The original Gemini continues to disassemble as the new one emerges, until after nearly 34 million generations, new life is born.'"pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fsto ry%2F10%2F06%2F17%2F162242%2FFirst-Self-Replicating-Creature-Spawned-In-Conways-Game-of-Life" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=First+Self-Replicating+Creature+Spawned+In+Conway's+Game+of+L ife%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fa7evVV" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/06/17/162242/First-Self-Replicating-Creature-Spawned-In-Conways-Game-of-Life?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./ppa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/f6icziUt9slCB9I42agWM5gvyRg/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/f6icziUt9slCB9I42agWM5gvyRg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/f6icziUt9slCB9I42agWM5gvyRg/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/f6icziUt9slCB9I42agWM5gvyRg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/0vJyxIhjWR4" height="1" width="1"/

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