The origin of Artificial Life (ALIFE) can be traced back to the 1940s when John von Neumann and Stanislaw Ulam developed cellular automata, a computational model to study complex systems and self-replicating structures. ALIFE as a field formally emerged in the 1980s, with Christopher Langton organizing the first ALIFE conference in 1987. The field aims to understand life by recreating biological phenomena through simulations and artificial environments, exploring principles of life beyond traditional biological contexts.
I always love your creations, but what I keep on wondering is why you format the code like that? It's unreadable and not understandable? Like I don't see the reason/incentive to even do this.. or am I missing something? Like no one can learn from this formated code sadly enough
Very crudely, you count the number of matches that cross the 4 vertical lines you can see at the beginning (they are spaced by the length of 1 or 2 needles) , and divide the total number of matches by that number. Since it has to do with the needles rotation, that's where pi comes from (angle measured in radians) I believe there are videos explaining this better should you search Buffon's Needle Problem on Internet
