Life

life English Etymology 1 Proper noun en chiefly Christian Science God. XXXII 51 Then one deep love doth supersede⁠All other, when her ardent gaze⁠Roves from the living brother’s face,And rests upon the Life indeed. en cellular automata Conway's Game of Life. en 1988-01-26 David Hiebeler Fast way to update grids comp.theory.cell-automata https://groups.google.com/g/comp.theory.cell-automata/c/3ZCpFpdC3ng/m/y4j-ExTv4EMJ Basically, I'm looking for a fast (the fastest?) way of updating grids, where each cell has to look at an arbitrary number of its neighbors. I've seen some fast life-programs, but often they took advantage of particular quirks of the rules of Life. en 1999-05-13 Thomas Womack 3D automata with Life-style objects comp.theory.cell-automata https://groups.google.com/g/comp.theory.cell-automata/c/Ad1jbW4rOEU/m/cF_BbefM4AQJ Is there a known 3D totalistic or semi-totalistic automaton (Life is the latter sort - state at time t+1 depends on state at time t and count of neighbours) which exhibits the same sort of behaviour as Life (that is, a reasonable range of naturally-occuring still lives and short-period oscillators)? en 2003-02-20 Rolf Wilms Fast implementation of core algorithm for Conway's Game of Life comp.theory.cell-automata https://groups.google.com/g/comp.theory.cell-automata/c/gzvJgUavJt8/m/Ig31KushmhsJ Maybe the RolfLife algorithm could be of value to someone implementing life i.e. in the vertex shader of a (DirectX 9) graphics card, where few lines of code and no LUT are favoured. Derived terms Highlife Life-like cellular automaton Life without Death Etymology 2 Variant of en Leaf. Proper noun s en. Statistics According to the 2010 United States Census, Life is the 37591st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 592 individuals. Life is most common among White (79.73%) and Black/African American (13.51%) individuals. Further reading Anagrams en efil File flie filé elif lief Fiel file Irish ga:An + Etymology From ga cel-pro *liyeti flow (cognate with kw liv flood, br liñv flood), cy llif flood) ultimately from ga ine-pro *leyH- to flow. An alternative hypothesis from Gearóid Mac Eoin is that the name comes from the the original language spoken in Ireland. Pronunciation ga [l̠ʲɪfʲə] Proper noun f na Life an Life ga river c/Ireland Liffey Descendants en Liffey 1 gmw-fin Liffy 1