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Hands-On GPU Programming with Python and CUDA
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Hands-On GPU Programming with Python and CUDA

by Dr. Brian Tuomanen
November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
310 pages
7h 54m
English
Packt Publishing
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Conway's game of life

The Game of Life (often called LIFE for short) is a cellular automata simulation that was invented by the British mathematician John Conway back in 1970. This sounds complex, but it's really quite simple—LIFE is a zero-player game that consists of a two-dimensional binary lattice of cells that are either considered live or dead. The lattice is iteratively updated by the following set of rules:

  • Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbors dies
  • Any live cell with two or three neighbors lives
  • Any live cell with more than three neighbors dies
  • Any dead cell with exactly three neighbors comes to life

These four simple rules give rise to a complex simulation with interesting mathematical properties that is also aesthetically ...

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