Game of Life on Phyllosilicates: Gliders, Oscillators and Still Life
Andrew Adamatzky
TL;DR
This paper introduces a cellular automaton model inspired by phyllosilicate structures, demonstrating complex behaviors such as gliders, oscillators, and still lifes similar to Conway's Game of Life.
Contribution
It presents a novel automaton model based on phyllosilicate structures, showing emergent life-like behaviors and interactions.
Findings
Presence of gliders, oscillators, and still lifes in the automaton
Configurations and interactions of localizations are demonstrated
Automaton mimics key features of Conway's Game of Life
Abstract
A phyllosilicate is a sheet of silicate tetrahedra bound by basal oxygens. A phyllosilicate automaton is a regular network of finite state machines --- silicon nodes and oxygen nodes --- which mimics structure of the phyllosilicate. A node takes states 0 and 1. Each node updates its state in discrete time depending on a sum of states of its three (silicon) or six (oxygen) neighbours. Phyllosilicate automata exhibit localizations attributed to Conway's Game of Life: gliders, oscillators, still lifes, and a glider gun. Configurations and behaviour of typical localizations, and interactions between the localizations are illustrated.
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