{"id":1599,"date":"2022-03-01T23:04:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T23:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/straszaks.co.uk\/?p=1599"},"modified":"2022-03-01T23:06:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T23:06:02","slug":"%d1%81%d0%bb%d0%b0%d0%b2%d0%b0-%d1%83%d0%ba%d1%80%d0%b0%d1%97%d0%bd%d1%96-and-the-game-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/straszaks.co.uk\/?p=1599","title":{"rendered":"\u0421\u043b\u0430\u0432\u0430 \u0423\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0457\u043d\u0456 and The Game of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rather odd coincidence that I&#8217;ve finished working with the Game of Life, given that some sadistic kleptomaniacal despot in the Urals is now dictating the fates of a few million fellow slavs. <strong>\u0421\u043b\u0430\u0432\u0430 \u0423\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0457\u043d\u0456 and hopefully that old bastard Putin gets what he has coming to him.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In any case, on the brighter side, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/callous4567\/UoE-Projects\/tree\/master\/SimAndVis\/C2\">here<\/a> is my rendition of the Game of Life, the quintessential coding project brought up by Conway many decades ago (though back then, done on paper rather than pythonically in a few hours.) Next on the agenda is coding up the SIRS Model, though that&#8217;ll be fairly quick, given how close it is to the 2D Ising Model. Anyhow, on to different things! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_71743\"  width=\"925\" height=\"520\"  data-origwidth=\"925\" data-origheight=\"520\"  data-relstop=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Eawpgv_T9MQ?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>See the Game of Life in action here, with the R-Pentomino. The code I&#8217;ve put up has a few preset patterns to use, and also a plaintext-to-pattern tool included (though nothing to deal with RLE files.) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The agenda recently also brought about the fortuitous opportunity to photograph the local pond with it nice and still once again- the last chance having been a good few months ago. With the exact same framing and composition (but in the dark- the sun had set at this point) I got a fairly decent shot. I also scored a few other shots of the local area- I&#8217;ll be off for some sunrise birding tomorrow to cement a fairly photographic couple of days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"732\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/straszaks.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSC_0063-1-732x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/straszaks.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSC_0063-1-732x1024.jpg 732w, https:\/\/straszaks.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSC_0063-1-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/straszaks.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSC_0063-1-768x1075.jpg 768w, https:\/\/straszaks.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSC_0063-1-1097x1536.jpg 1097w, https:\/\/straszaks.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSC_0063-1-1463x2048.jpg 1463w, https:\/\/straszaks.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSC_0063-1.jpg 1786w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px\" \/><figcaption>Levenhall Links Pond, a good 2\/3 hour past sunset (and thus shot in fairly decent darkness.)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In other photographic news, my recent trip to Glen Affric was a 2\/3-resounding success (with the other 1\/3 being a rather stressful clomp back to Cannich as a storm rolled in, markedly improved by a nice couple from Perth giving me a hitch back to town) I&#8217;m now on the prowl for a new spot to go photograph- you can see the photos from this trip in the now-uploaded folder I&#8217;ve added to the photograph section of the site. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As always, take care. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather odd coincidence that I&#8217;ve finished working with the Game of Life, given that some sadistic kleptomaniacal despot in the Urals is now dictating the fates of a few million fellow slavs. \u0421\u043b\u0430\u0432\u0430 \u0423\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0457\u043d\u0456 and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/straszaks.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/straszaks.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/straszaks.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straszaks.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straszaks.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/straszaks.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1602,"href":"https:\/\/straszaks.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions\/1602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straszaks.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/straszaks.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straszaks.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straszaks.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}