{"id":38179,"date":"2011-06-03T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/what-is-it-about-john-conways-work-that-caught\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T14:43:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T21:43:44","slug":"what-is-it-about-john-conways-work-that-caught","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/what-is-it-about-john-conways-work-that-caught\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-38179 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/what-is-it-about-john-conways-work-that-caught\/attachment\/38180\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"77\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_llnyzhuzaT1qene28o1_250-100x77.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><b>What is it about John Conway&rsquo;s work that caught your imagination? WW<\/b>: It&rsquo;s so extraordinary, because the rules behind it are so simple. It&rsquo;s like the game Go. A lot of people I know lost major chunks of their life from both of these endeavors. From an outside person&rsquo;s point of view, it might seem totally pointless, but there&rsquo;s some underlying aspect I think they capture, both Go and Conway&rsquo;s Life or cellular automata in general, of reality and complex systems. <br \/>\nThat they can arise from fairly simple rules and interactions, and that became a major design approach for all the games: &ldquo;How can I put together a simple little thing that&rsquo;s going to interact and give rise to this great and unexpected complex behavior?&rdquo; So that was a huge inspiration for me. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/feature\/6386\/the_replay_interviews_will_wright.php?page=3\">Gamasutra &#8211; Features &#8211; The Replay Interviews: Will Wright<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it about John Conway&rsquo;s work that caught your imagination? WW: It&rsquo;s so extraordinary, because the rules behind it are so simple. It&rsquo;s like the game Go. A lot of people I know lost major chunks of their life from both of these endeavors. From an outside person&rsquo;s point of view, it might seem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[780,781,1539],"class_list":{"0":"post-38179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-gallery","5":"hentry","6":"tag-edp","7":"tag-emergent-digital-practices","9":"post_format-post-format-gallery"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9VN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38181,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38179\/revisions\/38181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}