John Conway’s Game of Life, a famous cellular automaton, has been found to have periodic patterns of every possible length. In 1969, the British mathematician John Conway devised a beguilingly simple ...

In 1970, British mathematician John Horton Conway created a zero-player videogame, dubbed "Conway's Game of Life". The game takes place on a grid of squares, and the only input a user can have is ...

Patterns is a Minecraft-esque "break things and then build with them" type game that adds more varied geometry and a physics engine to the mix. Under development by Linden Lab, most famous for the ...

Second Life developer Linden Lab has revealed its next project as Patterns, a game about crafting a world out of geometric shapes and sharing it with others. The Minecraft influence is immediately ...

If you'd like to try out Conway's Game of Life, it's easy to do. There's a solid Web-based game of life implementation here that will let you experiment with basic patterns.

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Greg Pincus, who lives in Los Angeles, California. He says he has been “writing steadily since 4th grade, when I went from making birthday cards ...

Second Life developer opens the door to Patterns, their upcoming game. Second Life developer Linden Labs revealed its next upcoming title, Patterns, in a gameplay trailer for the 3D world building ...

More trivially, the game attracted a cult of “Lifenthusiasts,” programmers who spent a lot of time hacking Life — that is, constructing patterns in hopes of spotting new Life-forms.

Second, make sure to set a six-digit pattern, which is obviously harder to crack than a four-digit pattern. These changes will take a few minutes of your life, but your phone's data may thank you ...

A long-standing mystery about repeating patterns in a two-dimensional mathematical game has been solved after more than 50 years with the discovery of two final pieces in the puzzle.

Ever since former Everquest and Sim 3 alumni Rod Humble joined Linden Lab, there’s been the expectation that the former Second Life developers might come up with something special. Patterns is ...