PLEASE turn this into an interactive website

@flingyourself

Ай бұрын

I second this!!!

@victork8708

Ай бұрын

google cardinal...

@daniel_77.

Ай бұрын

Or atleast a program

@hwithumlaut8288

Ай бұрын

Please

@MINECRAFTLOVER4000

Ай бұрын

​@@victork8708?

“What instrument do you play?” “It’s complicated…”

@paper177

Ай бұрын

Is conway's game of life an instrument?

@fryz

Ай бұрын

@@paper177idk is mayonnaise?

@666thmoab

Ай бұрын

@@fryzis horse radish?

@jay31415

Ай бұрын

Life. I play life.

@RailsofForney

26 күн бұрын

Maybe I should just stick to playing euphonium…

i love the repeating patterns the oscillators make, especially at 9:42, it would be cool to see a full song made using a lot of these patterns in combination like loops

@therealelement75

Ай бұрын

uhhhh, die hard is a spark

@JaceFaller

16 күн бұрын

​@@therealelement75it has oscillators in it thats what they meant.

@therealelement75

16 күн бұрын

@@JaceFaller he put 9:42 in the comment, even though that's not an oscillator

@Lassie23

3 күн бұрын

@@therealelement75yes, die hard is a spark that *contains oscillators*

“What instrument doth thou playeth” “Life.” “Life?” “Life..”

@paper177

Ай бұрын

I shall playeth thy musical instrument. *Life.*

@relito_animations

25 күн бұрын

Roulx Kaard (deltarune) be like:

@AdmiralGordon

24 күн бұрын

Cruelty squad ass comment

@elemenopi9239

23 күн бұрын

WHAT DOTH LIFE

@PrussiaCountryballs

21 күн бұрын

Tis thy shall not comprehend the sound of which I make

i like loafer, it sounds very peaceful

@paper177

Ай бұрын

especially when the bass notes mix in with the high notes 😔

@jacksongreen4107

26 күн бұрын

It reminds me of Minecraft music for some reason.

@juliatorre8803

22 күн бұрын

Christmas-y almost

@baructort

22 күн бұрын

it would be cool to space them out differently so it’s not a note per beat

6:13 the loafer sounds the best to me, works really well as a 7/8 pattern

@prismix0870

Ай бұрын

Oh yeah it is in 7 lol, i didnt notice. Octagon 2 is in 5

@stoffer108

17 күн бұрын

Reminds of something that could be in undertale, very toby fox

Pattern loafer made me think of a walk through a claymation fall forest.

I really like the motif at 4:55, it sounds very Lavender Town esque.

@filedotjar

Ай бұрын

You then get a happier version at 5:21

@anderaginaga2

Ай бұрын

​@@filedotjar4:55 is original Lavender Town bgm, 5:21 is Lavender Town in second gen games

Other ideas - - it feels like we're arbitrarily picking an axis when we define the "strings" and "higher" notes, when the game doesn't really care what direction your objects are moving... - so, maybe define the pitches that play based on the number of neighbors, e.g. if a cell has 0-1 neighbors it plays C - could also define the pitches by the "direction" of the neighbors used to create a newborn cell - could also define them recursively from the prior set of pitches that play, in an attempt to create cohesive melody lines - play a note when a cell dies, not just when one is born

@recurvestickerdragon

Ай бұрын

Yeah, it feels like the variance we're seeing is coming more from the stripey pattern underneath rather than the actual shapes moving across it. Would be neat to see one based on the "speed" of movement, though I suppose that would be hard to measure,

@Jeff-ss6qt

24 күн бұрын

​​​@@recurvestickerdragonMaybe measure speed by how many generations a cell lives? You might have to play the simulation a fair amount ahead to find out though. At least depending on what you to with thay speed. Like, would it be a simple scale that goes up with each generation or a specific note based on how long the cell lives in the simulation that is played ahead? How would you deal with a cell with an infinitely slow speed due to staying alive 100% of the time? There's always a chance of something else hitting it or never hitting it.

So, is life jazz?

@Goatey523

20 күн бұрын

Always has been

Can you PLEASE just make like. 3 hours of this or something I have insomnia and can never sleep I’m commenting this at 3AM I would fall asleep maybe within an hour with this thank you so so much for making this awesome video to begin with though!

@eggsbox

Ай бұрын

yessss this

@linkshadow2

25 күн бұрын

I second this, but because my cat really likes it a lot and has my play it 🥹 it makes her super calm

@artsintheam

9 күн бұрын

I agree

10:17 Is that a… 5/8 time signature loop? Geez…

@sleepyheadmemes

23 күн бұрын

Alternating 4/4 and 7/8 (or just 15/8) at 11:17

@Gelatinocyte2

21 күн бұрын

*5/4. It has 5 whole beats; a 5/8 would be more like lopsided 2 beats (one whole beat + one slightly longer beat), or a rushed 3 beats (2 whole beats + one half-beat). Although, you can kind of feel it as a 5/8, with the 1st and 3rd beats emphasized.

Baba is You ahh type beat

Die hard in harmonic minor was lit. 🔥 you make amazing videos man.

Have you ever considered applying the circle of fifths for the layout?

@sam_bamalam

29 күн бұрын

I was thinking the same! Fifths on one axis, fourths on the other

@kuretaxyz

22 күн бұрын

fifths and major thirds would be great.

8:53 this actually sounds cool like if it were a melody to a song

@donaldcreswell4915

24 күн бұрын

It'd make a good ringtone

This is honestly million-dollar content. Keep going.

My grandfather just died and my grandma is on the way out. This comforts me somehow.

@obonyxiam

Ай бұрын

i'm sorry for your loss

@AJLord

Ай бұрын

[Sending virtual hug...] [Hug sent!]

@Skhal

Ай бұрын

Why talk about this here? I never understand people who says private thing like this on KZread? Wtf is wrong with humanity? This is about square making music, not a book about private life of random people

@arnoudh6203

Ай бұрын

​@@SkhalSaying that music is somehow comforting in their situation is related to the video. Also, people do it to vent. Caring about privacy is only necessary when there are people that can use the private information to do harm which is (unusually) not the case on the internet.

@gjk-arts5855

Ай бұрын

@@Skhal It's a comment, a feeling or thought they had while watching the video & music can often create feelings within people - sometimes comforting ones and hey, it's always nice to get some words of comfort from strangers. When that happens, it actually shows the better part of humanity. That we can all unite together just to make someone we barely even know, but we know are struggling, feel a little better. And, who knows. maybe someone out there is struggling with something similar and happened to click on the video and feels the same way- It's also nice to know… that you're not alone.

7:23 Stunningly complex sound. Amazing.

@xpotential

23 күн бұрын

it's like running away while panicking

2:49 it's literally miracle musical dream sweet in sea major "children born in one emotion"

@mrtomithy

22 күн бұрын

hello fellow miracle musical enjoyer

@dzek_thefriend

22 күн бұрын

@@mrtomithy it warms my heart to see others who enjoy this project. May your days be many and you woes few

i like how dramatic Z-hexomino sounded

Why do some of these harmonies sound kinda like things C418 would write?

@BjoernLewin

6 күн бұрын

mayb bcoz they’re symmetrical

@ 5:48 -- You have invented the cyber-Bartok!

R-pentomino got robbed of a solo. Damn politics

So many of these patterns sound like really interesting jazz compositions. I love this.

Man, that harmonic minor die hard is haunting, I love it! It does seem like the synth volume is clipping quite a bit though, so it sounds a bit harsh. I'd love to hear a cleaner version!

@linearstream

Ай бұрын

Unreal. Love that one.

Loafer is my favorite one here. I love the sound of it!

You could try mapping 2d to a scale using the Hilbert curve. Cells next to each other will tend to be close on the scale, but you would get occasional jumps and interesting intervals

@blakelockley3367

Ай бұрын

id love to see this too

i've been a life enthusiast for some time now and I think this is a brilliant idea. I want to try every pattern with this, please do make an interactive website from this !

sounds like a soundtrack for an niche indie rpgmaker game

@lslime1545

13 күн бұрын

Phosphor from Oneshot :) kzread.info/dash/bejne/eKiBrbhvl7HIg7Q.htmlsi=njJVU7Xxjt3erRkZ

Amusingly, ironically, this reminds me quite a lot of the SPORE game soundtrack, specifically of the Cell Stage.

10:35 Hmm, that's a fancy way to play your A#maj9…

this is really cool! The detailed visuals is what makes it for me: colored tiles, tile labeling, generation counter, live 'piano', clear labeling. It no doubt took a lot of effort to code or edit the beautiful displays but as a viewer I find they make the video much more enjoyable!

5:18 goes hard

@gec101

2 күн бұрын

I know the bounty ad really does ( I got an ad for Bounty tissue)

Loafer and table major pentatonic were bangers

Very fun execution, really reminds me of 20th century modernistic/minimal music, and it looks great too

Random ideas: 1) Use the number of non-triggering cells on a string as velocity 2) Langton's Ant :)

The Loafer in A Maj is surprisingly melodic.

I really like listening to Conway West :D

10:56 the figure eight reminds me of vs. susie from deltarune similar note progression, just in a higher key

My favourite is at 10:19 This is a great concept

This would be a great way to get inspiration for music. I can imagine some of these as video game tracks

I’ve been fascinated by the patterns the Game of Life makes for some time and yet this is the first time I saw it being used in such an unmodified state to output a signal like this. Lots to think on.

My favorites were die hard, loafer and pentadecathlon, especially loafer, it feels like it's a real song

pinwheel even sounds like its name! the perfect name indeed!

I love how the 2 notes on 5:50 glider look like they are swimming

great video!

3 Blue 1 Brown did a video about using space filling curves to assign frequencies to visual data at different resolutions. I think that there's a really cool intersection of those ideas to be explored!

Loafer sounded amazing! 8:52 this really reminds me of Fallen Down and scp 3008 theme, wow

Loved the tables.

dope concept!

This is amazing. Would love to get my hands on this and play with it a little. I think it would be cool to have a system in which cells that are not newborn continue to ring. This would create interesting drones in patterns that contain statics and moving objects.

5:43 i feel like i just entered a woods area that's rumoured to be haunted by local npcs

Nice! It sounded better then I thought.

This is reaaally great content ! I think it would be cool to add strategies to have variations on the rythm ! That could make the thing more "musical"

The Pinwheel was beautiful

03:19 *Wow,so he's actually playing off of their positions!* I thought it was going to be him putting imagery of 'Life' together in synch with the music. *So the 'Lifeforms' are essentially writing the music,without even realizing that's what they're doing.* Brilliant!!!

This is so cool! If you revisit this, I think another fun way to lay out the grid would be a 12x12 with each row going up the circle of fifths and starting from the next note as you go up the column

I like heavy weight spaceship! 5:30

Loafer is one of the most beautiful things i think ive ever heard

Life is music.

@paper177

29 күн бұрын

tru

oh my goodness gracious... i want to play with this so bad

Nice!

omg loafer sounds so good!

What a minimalistic sound :)

Awesome idea to turn the game of life into music. It sounds very interesting. I think it can be improved by adding rules for tempo / duration perhaps. But I already like it how it is

Amazing! You should map rhythm next, simplest being a sustain with steady decay for the whole lifespan of the cell. You could also have a floor where a minimum lifespan yields a the shortest duration for a much sparser, less plodding texture (e.g. 3 generations = 16th note). The visuals would be overwhelming as binary on/off, but might be really cool with some fade in/fade out effects.

So cool

It would be fun to have a program that takes a set of chords and tries to turn it into a conway pattern

The loafer was beautiful :)

This recalls the Tarkus for me!

canada goose sounds harmoniously chaotic, but good sounding

Id love to see someone use this to recreate pipular songs! Love the idea and the video ❤

Loafer sounds really cool

When not thinned, it reminds me of music from Mr. Rogers Neighborhood.

As with most computer generated music tools, this works well to inspire and he a creative starting point. But none of this sounds like music, that's where a human has to come in.

@paper177

29 күн бұрын

die hard sounds crazy tho

@xXTomokoKurokiXx

24 күн бұрын

Most of this is not necessarily to make compositions, but to prove a point - that music in its purist form is a series of patterns, and we can use things like Conway's Game of Life to find unique patterns and apply them to our own understanding of music.

I actually really like the sound of 3:10, it makes my head feel empty like brown noise.

I would so love to have the ability to play with this myself, or even having the source being able to play with different parameters. This would be so cool

The Die Hard pattern is so good

If only John Conway could listen to this...

9:30 Die hard sounds like it can used as part of an OST of a spooky mystery game

This is very interesting

Someone needs to make this into a synth module, would make for a really interesting sequencer

3:08 - wake up, new INTERLOPER soundtrack just dropped

die hard really lives up to its name

The pinwheel is my new favourite object.

I wonder also how it would sound by also just keeping pressed notes that are pressed two generations in a row as an extra thinning strategy, that way we also could maybe get like long lasting chords or something and avoid every single note being always pressed at the same interval to vary the rythm

woah am I early? the loaf one sounds amazing

That recurring pattern is too catchy…

This reminds me of The Secret of Mana from SNES.❤

How about an alternative approach: instead of using Conway's Game of Life to act as an instrument that plays different sounds based on it's locality (space & time) of each iteration, how about having the application generate Cells in Conway's Game of Life based on reading an audio file either it being a wav, a midi, or even an mp3 type file. Then we can feed the game with a given piece of audio such as a song and see how it would look within the context of Conway's Game of Life. With something like this, the time it takes for each iteration to occur would depend on the tempo of intended audio segment. This would also be very interesting to see.

@thepotatotaxi2430

Ай бұрын

yeah because that's possible to implement 🤦‍♂️

7:23 im going to be honest, the figure looks like a butterfly

would kill for this as a vst...

8:53 i like this, give me some disney channel vibe

You should change the scale every iteration around the circle of fifths so you get key changes that might resolve somewhere

Oh god, a game knows more music theory than I do?! Gimme one now!

Awesome! Not sure if you've already done something like this but I tried making music from various maze solving algorithms (Fairly badly, the y axis of newly traversed cells corresponded to pitch and the x axis to volume which is kinda lame). Maybe you could have a go at it?

Native Instruments' Reaktor actually has a drum machine that uses very similar mechanics to the game of life (might be the same but I'm not sure) called Newscool, it's pretty neat

Sound very scary and good 6:12

would kill for an itneractive version of thus!!