Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Breeder

Breeder

 * Reason:Conway's Game of Life is really quite fascinating, and I'm not sure our current FP quite captures the complexity possible with it. I think this animation helps rectify that problem. As Conway's Game of Life is based around squares, this image is infintely scalable.
 * Articles this image appears in:Conway's Game of Life, Breeder (cellular automaton), Cellular automaton
 * Creator:User:Protious after User:Hyperdeath's original still image.


 * Support as nominator --Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 09:47, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Strong Support - beautiful. If only we could have the animation qualities of GIF with the smoothness and scalability of SVG. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 18:05, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Technically, in this case we can: The Game of Life takes place on a square grid, with square cells. Images use square pixels. So if you enlarge this any integral number of times, it will still have everything exactly in the right shape. =) Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 18:16, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - I'm also fascinated by the Conways automata, but this is way too small and I see no justification for it -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 22:42, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Shows a large scale automaton, no need to have more than 1 px per grid. de Bivort 20:56, 9 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Support Even as a gif it is scalable (because each cell is a square anyway). I seem to recall that the growth was asymptotically quadratic and would like to see a refed mention in the caption if that is indeed the case. Noodle snacks (talk) 00:26, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
 * There's a ref at Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 04:53, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. Durova Charge! 02:10, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Support de Bivort 20:56, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak oppose. I would like to see it larger.  As it is, it is hard to see anything other than a collection of grey blobs moving across a screen.   Spinach Dip  21:24, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

MER-C 08:19, 12 March 2009 (UTC)