SmoothLife is a family of rules created by Stephan Rafler. It was designed as a continuous version of Conway's Game of Life - using floating point values instead of integers. This rule is SmoothLifeL which supports many interesting phenomena such as gliders that can travel in any direction, rotating pairs of gliders, wickstretchers and the appearance of elastic tension in the 'cords' that join the blobs.

Run it for yourself:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/smoothlife/
Add this line to the top of SmoothLifeConfig.txt and run the exe:
2 1 10.0 3.0 10.0 0.100 0.257 0.336 0.365 0.549 2 4 4 0.028 0.147 // L

Or download Ready( http://code.google.com/p/reaction-diffusion) and open the included pattern: Patterns/smoothlife_smoothlifeL.vti

Slides showing how the rule works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyTIXRhjXII
Paper describing SmoothLife and SmoothLifeL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.1567
More videos by Stephan: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL69EDA11384365494&feature=plcp
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