Cellular Erasure

A found poem is seeded onto Conway's Game of Life, one word per cell, and left to run until it settles. The automaton doesn't compose: it just decides, cell by cell, who keeps living from one generation to the next. What's still standing when it settles isn't authored so much as survived, closer to what a second reading does to a poem than to writing one.

Instrument

Generation 0
Population 0 / 0
Rule B3/S23
Seed
seeded

Automaton

Seed density40%
Speed3 gen/s

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Field notes

No species sighted yet.

    Recovered text

    Run the automaton to see what it finds.