Life

God.

Proper noun

  1. God.
    • Then one deep love doth supersede ⁠All other, when her ardent gaze ⁠Roves from the living brother’s face, And rests upon the Life indeed. - 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward...
  2. Conway's Game of Life.
    • Basically, I'm looking for a fast (the fastest?) way of updating grids, where each cell has to look at an arbitrary number of its neighbors. I've seen some fast life-programs, but often they took advantage of particular...
    • Is there a known 3D totalistic or semi-totalistic automaton (Life is the latter sort - state at time t+1 depends on state at time t and count of neighbours) which exhibits the same sort of behaviour as Life (that is, a...
    • Maybe the RolfLife algorithm could be of value to someone implementing life i.e. in the vertex shader of a (DirectX 9) graphics card, where few lines of code and no LUT are favoured. - 2003 February 20, Rolf Wilms,...

Derived

Highlife Life-like cellular automaton Life without Death

Proper noun Entry 2

  1. A surname.

Origin

Variant of Leaf.

Forms

Lifes