Dear all, I finished my life program(thanks for all the help), and was just playing around, changing the rules. I got some really wierd patterns, but nothing I''d say was very intresting. However, just now, I read that some people have used CA for modelling usfull sientific stuff! How do they do that? I wouldn''t have thought you could find any intersting rules that would simulate stuff like that. Anyone have any good links or reading material? Thanks, Jesse www.laeuchli.com/jesse/

Look up gliders and gosper guns online. They allow for data transfer and things like or/and gates in a game of life. with complex combinations of these and several other configurations, you could have your life program do all the things a computer does.