[Matrix-SIG] Conway's Life with NumPy

Aaron Watters aaron@cs.rutgers.edu
Thu, 27 Aug 1998 08:53:25 -0400


Please expand.  It seems to me that you need missing
"rich indexing" functionality to implement sparse life, but
perhaps I'm missing something important (very likely).
Please inform.  -- Aaron Watters

Andrew P. Mullhaupt wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Just van Rossum <just@letterror.com>
> To: matrix-sig@python.org <matrix-sig@python.org>
> Date: Wednesday, August 26, 1998 3:44 PM
> Subject: [Matrix-SIG] Conway's Life with NumPy
>
> >Today it occurred to me that it should be fairly trivial to implement
> >Conway's Life with NumPy. It was.>
> >I still feel like a total NumPy newbie, so if anyone has suggestions
> >on how to do things differently, I'd be very interested.
>
> You might find that the expressive power of Numerical Python makes it easy
> to implement Gosper's recursive version which is orders of magnitude more
> efficient in time and space for sparse cases, which is where you end up with
> many interesting life patterns.
>
> Later,
> Andrew Mullhaupt
>
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