Life in life

A video of Conway s Game of Life, emulated in Conway s Game of Life. The Life pattern is the OTCA Metapixel: for more information, see The life simulator used is Golly which has a builtin script to generate these metapixel grids (select a pattern, and choose from the scripts list). Inspired by this video: but with the speed and scale varying smoothly over time, rather than in discrete jumps as the original video did. The actual video is exported from Golly using a custom Python script: (since Golly builtin only supports rendering the view with a scale which is a power of 2, for performance reasons this is not a particularly welloptimised or fast script to run). The audio track used to be a Shepard Tone, but that was horrible, so I r