Finding Mona Lisa in the Game of Life
For years I'm been thinking about something like this in terms of data compression:<p>Would it be possible to have some sort of cellular automata program that generates the uncompressed data after so many generations.<p>The compressed data would be the start state of the game field, which over several generations would produce the uncompressed data.<p>For it to work, you would have to start with the uncompressed data and work backwards. Which is what the author of this article is trying to do with these pictures.<p>Based on what I can understand from the article, there is no hope for my data compression scheme.