HISTORIC LIFE

Abstract

A variation of Conway's Game of Life (LIFE) is presented in this paper. The rules of LIFE remain unaltered in the variation we name VIDA, but, unlike in LIFE, in VIDA a cell is featured by its most frequent state, not necessarily the last one. As an overall conclusion, it is claimed that the consideration of historic memory of past states has an inertial (or conservating) effect. Thus, small cluster of live cells will not behave so vividly in VIDA as in LIFE could, but greater clusters tend to present higher persistence.