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Designing Beauty: The Art of Cellular Automata pp 103–109Cite as

The Art of Penrose Life

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John Horton Conway’s Game of Life (GoL) [39, 71] is a simple two-dimensional, two state cellular automaton (CA), remarkable for its complex behaviour [39, 136]. The classic GoL is defined on a regular square lattice.

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Stepney, S. (2016). The Art of Penrose 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_15

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