Life Lexicon Home Page (original) (raw)
This is the home page of Stephen Silver's Life Lexicon, an explanation of over seven hundred terms used in Conway's Life. The Life Lexicon may be copied, modified and distributed under the terms of theCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported licence (CC BY-SA 3.0).
You can view the Life Lexicon on-line, or download it in various forms, as shown in the table below. If you want the Lexicon in HTML, note that the single-page version can be difficult to use on some older systems due to its size, in which case you may prefer to use the multipage version. If you are aGNU Emacs user, then the ASCII version with its lifelex.el is recommended.
Note that the source distribution consists of the ASCII version plus the files needed to generate the HTML versions. This is unlikely to be of much use to anyone but me.
A Russian translation of the Life Lexicon by Nicolay Beluchenko is also available. (Zip file of Russian translation, 167K.) Nicolay has also compiled a collection of named objects from the Lexicon (last updated 2006 April 1).
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Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach. Samuel Johnson, 1775