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Re:Suggest HN: Hacker news circle on Google+ on Friday July 01, 2011 @11:44AM (#2718791)
drew3x (invite needed - thanks!)
Re:Google+ Invites inside on Thursday June 30, 2011 @11:50PM (#2716971)
[email protected], thanks in advance!
Re:Conway's Game of Life Extrusion on Saturday April 16, 2011 @12:48PM (#2454283)
Monitoring population size through generations in Conway's Game of Life was the premise of my state science fair project. I ended up going further and changing the rule parameters to see which were the most optimal ones, but if you want to see the population vs. generation graphs for the original rules, here they are:

12 pentominoes: http://i.imgur.com/wrO3o.png

Population over 50 generations graph: http://i.imgur.com/TIRgK.png