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Larger Than Life

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Images in this section provide a sample of the rich dynamics and complex selforganization exhibited by Larger than Life (LtL), a four-parameter family of twodimensional cellular automata that generalizes John Horton Conway’s celebrated Game of Life (Life) to large neighborhoods and general birth and survival thresholds. LtL was proposed by David Griffeath in the early 1990s to explore whether Life might be a clue to a critical phase point in the threshold-range scaling limit [80].

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Evans, K.M. (2016). Larger Than Life. In: Adamatzky, A., Martínez, G. (eds) Designing Beauty: The Art of Cellular Automata. Emergence, Complexity and Computation, vol 20. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27270-2_3

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