Origin: In the 1990s, this term enjoyed some popularity among cellularautomaton enthusiasts.
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It was a ' cellularautomaton', an array of cells like a gigantic chessboard.
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Chris Langton invented a specialist replicator in 1984, a P-shaped loop of eighty-six cells in a two-dimensional eight-state cellularautomaton.
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The Scientific American columnist Martin Gardner called it "Conway's most famous brainchild." This is not Life the family board game, but Life the cellularautomaton.