Henry Robbins and River Chavez
conway (2021)
MPEG-4
source code

The images node (2021-05-02) and rhizomes (2021-05-02) were photographed by River Chavez.

Conway’s Game of Life is a classic example of complex “emergent” behavior stemming from seemingly simple rules. In this work, Conway’s Game of Life was seeded from a source image and evolved until a stable state was reached. The resulting animation was then overlaid on top of the original source image.

node_conway_animation.mp4 (2021)
node_reverse_conway_animation.mp4 (2021)
rhizomes_conway_animation.mp4 (2021)
rhizomes_reverse_conway_animation.mp4 (2021)