Name of an Experiment Featured on Through the Wormhole?
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Can't really give many details here because I saw the episode quite a while ago, but I believe it was in an episode about either evolution or aliens (possibly the "Can we live Forever" episode). A man designed and wrote a program where a pixel on a 2D Grid represented a living being, and if there were too many in one spot they'd die, or if there were too few in one spot they'd die, so they'd have to spread out when reproducing to live.
Resembled something like this (excuse my awful paint skills):
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/wat88.png[/img]
[URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life[/URL]
Had to program this in my high school programming class, it was a bitch.
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