Golly

Speaker: Charalampos Zinoviadis

Abstract:

Initially developed by Andrew Trevorrow and Thomas Rokicki, Golly is
an open source application for exploring Conway's Game of Life and
other cellular automata. Equipped with a large library of cellular
automata rules and GoL configurations, it also uses clever hashing
algorithms to speed up the simulation.

In this talk, we will first explain the basic interface of Golly by
simulating sme classical CA rules, and after that we will deal more
with the Game of Life. We will see examples of guns, gliders, puffers,
sawteeth, oscillators and methuselah and other types of patterns.