A Game of Life on a Pythagorean Tessellation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soorya Annadurai
Keyword(s):  
Game Of Life

La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life by Elaine Sciolino

2012 ◽  
Vol 85 (5) ◽  
pp. 972-972
Author(s):  
Edward C. Knox
Keyword(s):  
Game Of Life

CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS CAN MIMIC SMALL-WORLD NETWORKS

1999 ◽  
Vol 09 (10) ◽  
pp. 2105-2126 ◽  
Author(s):  
TAO YANG ◽  
LEON O. CHUA
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Coupling Strength ◽  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Computing Time ◽  
Small World ◽  
Cellular Neural Networks ◽  
Clustering Coefficient ◽  
High Survival ◽  
Game Of Life ◽  
Hole Detection

Small-world phenomenon can occur in coupled dynamical systems which are highly clustered at a local level and yet strongly coupled at the global level. We show that cellular neural networks (CNN's) can exhibit "small-world phenomenon". We generalize the "characteristic path length" from previous works on "small-world phenomenon" into a "characteristic coupling strength" for measuring the average coupling strength of the outputs of CNN's. We also provide a simplified algorithm for calculating the "characteristic coupling strength" with a reasonable amount of computing time. We define a "clustering coefficient" and show how it can be calculated by a horizontal "hole detection" CNN, followed by a vertical "hole detection" CNN. Evolutions of the game-of-life CNN with different initial conditions are used to illustrate the emergence of a "small-world phenomenon". Our results show that the well-known game-of-life CNN is not a small-world network. However, generalized CNN life games whose individuals have strong mobility and high survival rate can exhibit small-world phenomenon in a robust way. Our simulations confirm the conjecture that a population with a strong mobility is more likely to qualify as a small world. CNN games whose individuals have weak mobility can also exhibit a small-world phenomenon under a proper choice of initial conditions. However, the resulting small worlds depend strongly on the initial conditions, and are therefore not robust.

The Game of Life

2010 ◽  
Vol 303 (6) ◽  
pp. 43-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Pavlus
Keyword(s):  
Game Of Life

Justice Seeking is Joy Seeking: The Formation of Faith-Informed, Community-Focused, Critical Consciousness in Adolescents

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
David Anderson Hooker ◽  
Elizabeth W. Corrie ◽  
Itihari Toure
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Critical Consciousness ◽  
Good Life ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Intentional Community ◽  
Game Of Life ◽  
Critical Junctures ◽  
Generational Identity ◽  
The Church

Abstract Seeking justice, understanding what makes for peace and pursuing it, these are integral aspects of the pursuit of the Good Life. In this chapter three youth and community development experts make the case that 1) a vital aspect of development is empowering adolescents with a faith-informed, community-focused, critical consciousness; 2) young people are formed in community and joy cannot be fully experienced except communally and in the pursuit of JustPeace; and 3) the church has opportunities to intervene at critical junctures in youth formation to help them see the importance of pursuing communal JustPeace for their own ability to live the Good Life. In support of these claims, a framework of radical Identity is postulated and two practices—the Eight Bowls of Life Ceremony for generational identity marking and the Game of Life, part of a three-week intentional community of the Youth Theological Initiative (yti) – are presented. Each practice contributes to formation of justice-seeking identities in adolescents as integral aspects of preparation for the life-long pursuit of God’s joy, God’s good life, and even God’s salvation.

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