This animation shows Byl's loop, which is a self-replicating “artificial lifeform” developed in 1989 by John Byl. More precisely, Byl’s loop is a cellular automaton with six states, corresponding to the six colours blue, red, magenta, green, yellow, and black, and the colour of a given pixel at time t+1 depends deterministically on the colours of the fo…
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