My husband and I both have masters degrees in the field, and our son, I guess, is a demonstration of what you can accomplish with selective breeding. Anyway - we enjoy these things on a daily basis. I actually wasn't sure all of those were going to come out, but even on the sticker, you can make out the individual cells in the more complex designs. ![]() ![]() We then went wild buying shirts for the family, a sticker (stuck currently on the water filter in the living room), a mug which was supposed to be mine but which my son guards as a precious possession, and a giant wall tapestry to hang in my son's room. So he put together on graph paper what he felt were the smallest/most iconic/best designs for each period, and I transferred those designs into a Teepublic appropriate digital format (using my obvious "Engineer Faking Things" designer skills. ![]() When the final pattern was discovered earlier this year, he was extremely excited about it, and we all wanted to celebrate. My son (13) is extremely mathematically adept, and current research on cellular automata generally and Life specifically is one of his passions.
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