On: The game of life emulated in the game of life

[raganwald]

"Cheating" by taking advantage of repetition is exactly how Bill Gosper's famous "HashLife" implementation handles really huge universes.

Here's my implementation in CoffeeScript, written in the "Williams Style:"

http://recursiveuniver.se

[rauljara → raganwald]

Yeah, I realized as I was typing it out that there must be "cheating" going on. After all, 99% of computer science is finding ways to "cheat".

[phillmv → rauljara]

Wherein cheating is a fun word for optimizing.

[jleader → rauljara]

Either cheat, or change the rules (i.e., solve a related but easier problem).

[tripzilch → raganwald]

so would a second level of recursion be possible with the hashlife algorithm?