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Re:Fully Functional 1KB Hard Drive in Vanilla Minecraft by readerrrr on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @08:55AM (#8202114)
A period of a single cell would take 35328^2 periods and (2048*2048)^2 cells of the most underlying game of life simulation.
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Re:Fully Functional 1KB Hard Drive in Vanilla Minecraft by nitrogen on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @11:10AM (#8202628)
A Life acceleration algorithm would help with that, but each cell would still require 4Tb of storage (though that storage could be shared by all cells, II think).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashlife

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Re:Fully Functional 1KB Hard Drive in Vanilla Minecraft by readerrrr on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @11:14AM (#8202656)
And there is not real purpose since the rules are the same for every level. Making them different and more complex would be interesting.
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