Conway Game Of Life Tiles Set 3D Printer Model

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Summary

Those are tiles which can represent each still life in conway game of life, i.e. they enforce constraints such that any tiling corresponds to a still life in Conway's Game of Life

For further details:
http://www.conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2188

LifeTiles.jscad Can be viewed correctly with colors in:
http://openjscad.org/

Important You should 3d print in 2 colors. Check out the jscad file for the coloring scheme.

Important Copy/Paste the LifeTiles.jscad into the code editor - don't try to drug and drop it into the window.

To use the TileGenerator.py script (you'll need golly http://golly.sourceforge.net/)

  1. copy it to some directory under golly python scripts.
  2. Make sure you have SL only in golly.
  3. Run the script. You get the report of each tile quantity, total, and script to generate the tiles.
  4. In the same folder of the script, find tiles.txt file, this is jscad script.
  5. Add it content to the end of posted below jscad script.
  6. Run in jscad (shift+enter) - notice you need to copy/paste the code.
  7. Have your SL in tiles.
LifeTiles.jscad 17.7KB
LifeTiles.stl 152.8KB
TileGenerator.jscad 16.7KB
TileGenerator.py 5.1KB
tiles.txt 6.2KB