I still recall discovering John Conway's "Game Of Life" in the Sixties.
Nowadays, his ideas have been much developed - Stephen Wolfram even proposes that this work could form the basis of an entirely new way of doing Science.

It was with great interest that I recently discovered Stephen's work.

In this case we start with a single black cell at top. Each succeeding row is generated according to the rules at the top.

Stephen was especially fascinated by "Rule 30" in that the central column appears random. No pattern could be discerned even after trillions of generations!

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I couldn't help myself - I had to expand on the above work.
Imagine my surprise when I discovered that there are over 7.5 trillion settings - compared with only 256 in the binary case!

I worked out that if I looked at one pattern each second, it would take me over 2,400 centuries to see them all!

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