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by breuleux 820 days ago
I might be missing something, but I don't think you even need Hashlife for this. The pattern is regular enough that you could just flat out store a static (x, y, t, state) map of a single cell and apply it fractally in order to compute the state of any part of the map at any time in constant time. You don't even need to simulate it at all.