{"id":1425,"date":"2020-04-12T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2026-10-09T11:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T09:05:09","slug":"john-conway-et-le-jeu-de-la-vie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/2020\/04\/12\/john-conway-et-le-jeu-de-la-vie\/","title":{"rendered":"John Conway et le jeu de la vie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">RIP John Conway (1937-2020), mort du Covid le 11 avril 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Horton_Conway\">Le math\u00e9maticien de Princeton<\/a> a invent\u00e9 en 1970 le \u00ab jeu de la vie \u00bb, un automate cellulaire o\u00f9 quelques r\u00e8gles locales suffisent \u00e0 faire na\u00eetre des structures qui bougent, se reproduisent et calculent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Je me souviens de ma premi\u00e8re version sur Amstrad CPC\u2026 Il a men\u00e9 beaucoup d&#8217;entre nous vers l&#8217;informatique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">En juin 2016, une s\u00e9ance de programmation \u00e0 la maison : un jeu de la vie \u00e0 quatre couleurs, et une discussion philosophique sur les syst\u00e8mes auto-\u00e9mergents, l&#8217;illusion de l&#8217;existence et du soi. Le code est sur <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/wollef\/TheColoredGameOfLife\">GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1465756088-0-src.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1465756088-0-src.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1465756088-0-src-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1465756088-0-src-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1465756088-0-src-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1465756088-0-src-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1465756088-0-src-360x270.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"720\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1280 \/ 720;\" width=\"1280\" controls src=\"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1203232679722091.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u00ab Soupe primitive \u00bb : les quatre populations color\u00e9es se disputent l&#8217;espace.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"720\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1280 \/ 720;\" width=\"1280\" controls src=\"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1203228963055796.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u00ab Universal Soldiers \u00bb : un cort\u00e8ge de planeurs (gliders).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Publi\u00e9 sur Facebook le 12 avril 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIP John Conway (1937-2020), mort du Covid le 11 avril 2020. Le math\u00e9maticien de Princeton a invent\u00e9 en 1970 le \u00ab jeu de la vie \u00bb, un automate cellulaire o\u00f9 quelques r\u00e8gles locales suffisent \u00e0 faire na\u00eetre des structures qui bougent, se reproduisent et calculent. Je me souviens de ma premi\u00e8re version sur Amstrad CPC\u2026 Il a men\u00e9 beaucoup d&#8217;entre nous vers l&#8217;informatique. En juin 2016, une s\u00e9ance de programmation \u00e0 la maison : un jeu de la vie \u00e0&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/2020\/04\/12\/john-conway-et-le-jeu-de-la-vie\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[394,244,106,282,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-instantanes","category-memoire-de-linformatique","category-pensees","category-sciences-mathematiques","category-theme-information-technologies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1566,"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions\/1566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}