Transport

Mobility & compass

Community minimum3

Compass turn interval9

Clockwise assignment18%

Starting mode: fewer than 3 living neighbors means travel; otherwise settle. Later switches use life history.

Move one square every Step. Compass turns every 9 private Steps; entering mobility captures its heading. Assignment changes affect new entities and Reset.

Mobility pattern

Shared by every entity

Number of digits

Code · oldest → newest

Every entity enters mobility when its latest 3 recorded states match 0 1 0.

Settlement pattern

Shared by every entity

Number of digits

Code · oldest → newest

Every entity settles into Life when its latest 4 recorded states match 0 0 0 0.

0 is dead; 1 is alive. Each pattern needs its full length of completed history. Neither or both matching keeps the current mode unless a repetition flip takes priority. Code edits preserve the field and history; shortening drops oldest digits, and lengthening adds leading zeroes.

Mobile life stays constant, so a mixed settlement pattern can leave an entity traveling indefinitely.

History repetition

Flip mode on repetition

Segment length X

Repeat threshold Y

Disabled; settings retained: flip mobility ↔ settlement when any 2-bit segment appears more than 5 times consecutively: 6 copies across 12 completed Steps.

Copies do not overlap and end at the newest record. A fresh match takes priority over both codes for one Step. It fires once until repetition breaks; the two codes still apply afterward. Up to 64 life records travel with each entity.

Editing X, Y or this switch preserves history and rearms the detector. Randomize repetition changes X and Y while keeping this switch.

Settled Life

B367/S18

Birth / revival

Survival

Birth: 3, 6, 7. Survival: 1, 8. Mobile entities keep their alive/dead state. Death retains identity and memory.

An occupied target blocks travel. If several entities claim an empty target, all wait. No entity loses its memory in a collision.

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Wandering Memory

Living and dead entities wander with private compasses and rolling memories. Shared codes and repeating segments in their life histories trigger travel or settlement.

Explore the collection Rules & reproducibility

Current composition

01Grid locations hold living entities, dead entities, or empty space.
02Living neighbors choose the starting mode. Settled entities apply B367/S18; mobile entities travel one square per Step when space permits.
03Each entity records alive/dead history. Two shared codes trigger mobility or settlement; a fresh repeated-segment match takes priority and flips its mode.
04Compasses keep turning. Travel keeps its heading until settlement; life history moves with identity.
05Dead entities can move and revive. They block travel but do not count as living neighbors.

Try Travelers and communities for living blocks and both kinds of traveler. Persistent dead entities can accumulate; no decay rule removes them.

Selected entity / location

Position: (80, 80) · Vacant
Living neighbors: 1 / 8
Next entity action: Remains vacant
Next location: Vacant
Previous action: No previous entity evidence

History and patterns run oldest to newest: 1 alive, 0 dead. Gold arrow: compass. Cyan arrow: stored travel.

Experiment index027 / 100

Game of Life: Wandering Memory

Paused · Toroidal

160 × 160 · Step 0

Settled lifeMobile life

Watch entities carry their histories through travel, rest, death and revival.

Choose a paint tool, or enable Inspect cell. Arrow keys select; Enter paints; P plays/pauses; S steps.