Maximum density stable patterns in variants of Conway's game of Life

Abstract

We use integer programming to find maximum density stable patterns in variants of Conway's game of Life, and we describe how to use the constraints of an integer programming formulation to construct upper bounds on the maximum density of infinite stable patterns.

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

8-1-2000

Publication Title

Operations Research Letters

Department

Mathematics

Document Type

Article

DOI

10.1016/S0167-6377(00)00016-X

Keywords

Integer programming, Game of life, Cellular automata

Language

English

Format

text

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