Using the most famous cellular automaton (Conway's Game of Life) to generate music.

We experiment with different note layouts and starting patterns to produce a variety of musical results.

0:00 Conway's Game of Life
1:38 Game of Life as a Musical Instrument
3:01 Thinning strategies
4:51 Midweight Spaceship (MWSS), harmonic minor
5:18 Heavyweight Spaceship (HWSS), major pentatonic
5:43 Glider, melodic minor (ascending)
6:12 Loafer, major scale
7:22 31P8H4V0, melodic minor (ascending)
8:00 Canada Goose, major scale
8:40 Table, major 13 chord
8:52 Table, major pentatonic
9:01 Twin Bees Shuttle Spark, melodic minor (ascending)
9:11 Z-hexomino, harmonic minor
9:30 Die hard, harmonic minor
10:17 Octagon 2, major scale
10:35 Pinwheel, major scale
10:55 Figure eight, melodic minor (ascending)
11:17 Pentadecathlon, major scale
11:40 T-tetromino, major scale

These visualizations were written in Java using the Processing graphical library ([ Ссылка ]). The audio was generated using Java's built-in MIDI library (javax.sound.midi).

Life Lexicon: [ Ссылка ]

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▶ “Algorithms” (4th Edition) by Robert Sedgewick & Kevin Wayne: [ Ссылка ]
▶ “Effective Java” (3rd Edition) by Joshua Bloch: [ Ссылка ]
▶ “Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software” by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, & John Vlissides: [ Ссылка ]
▶ “Discrete Algorithmic Mathematics” by Stephen B. Maurer & Anthony Ralston: [ Ссылка ]

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