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pith:L5VDKVFN

pith:2011:L5VDKVFNNEVSBZ3YHVKEYOPS5O

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Generalization of Conway's "Game of Life" to a continuous domain - SmoothLife

Stephan Rafler

arxiv:1111.1567 v2 · 2011-11-07 · nlin.CG

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\pithnumber{L5VDKVFNNEVSBZ3YHVKEYOPS5O}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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A Path to Universal Neural Cellular Automata

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:06:54.704496Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5f6a3554ad692b20e7783d544c39f2ebac187dc9ffba45b4c8cd97c4e031b4cf

Aliases

arxiv: 1111.1567 · arxiv_version: 1111.1567v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1111.1567 · pith_short_12: L5VDKVFNNEVS · pith_short_16: L5VDKVFNNEVSBZ3Y · pith_short_8: L5VDKVFN

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/L5VDKVFNNEVSBZ3YHVKEYOPS5O \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 5f6a3554ad692b20e7783d544c39f2ebac187dc9ffba45b4c8cd97c4e031b4cf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "62c2c11d9c7f359adfc5289cca6c3183fb4293278708e0af42c7e954dd47ff36",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "nlin.CG",
    "submitted_at": "2011-11-07T13:14:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1bdc0d86cd9275f98afbf9ff70afe163e4244409eb3a72eda437bc64e28e796f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1111.1567",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}