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by singularity2001 1264 days ago
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foAJTAu_gyE

It looks like this approach uses display bits to do calculations!? Maybe it's nice for debugging, but using these cells seems pretty inefficient!? Couldn't the pipelines and many of the logic cells be implemented in a much more direct way in GoL?

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We talked about this a bit here: https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5503. I estimated that the pattern is about 20000 times larger than it needs to be.
An entire forum dedicated to the Game of Life? That's pretty cool.