Life in life
by Phillip Bradbury
1:30 - 833,426 views

A video of Conway's Game of Life, emulated in Conway's Game of Life.

The Life pattern is the OTCA Metapixel: http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/OTCA_metapixel - for more information, see http://otcametapixel.blogspot.com.au/

The life simulator used is Golly - http://golly.sourceforge.net/ which has a built-in script to generate these metapixel grids (select a pattern, and choose "metafier.py" from the scripts list).

Inspired by this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtJ77qsLrpw but with the speed and scale varying smoothly over time, rather than in discrete jumps as the original video did.

The actual video is exported from Golly using a custom Python script: http://pastebin.com/8vVGCgKE (since Golly built-in only supports rendering the view with a scale which is a power of 2, for performance reasons - this is not a particularly well-optimised or fast script to run).

The audio track used to be a Shepard Tone, but that was horrible, so I replaced it with some of the music in YouTube's library (Jingle Punks - Back of the Room Hang)... if you really want to hear the original version, it is over here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOwFvytK5K0

Koyaanisqatsi - finale (film by Godfrey Reggio, music by Philip Glass)
by Roberto Finelli
5:20 - 332,149 views

This sequence shows footage of a Saturn V rocket lifting off, followed by footage of the May 1962 explosion of an Atlas-Centaur rocket.
Here, the camera follows a flaming rocket engine and a white vapor trail or smoke against a blue sky as the rocket plummets toward the ground.
The film ends with another shot of the pictogram.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koyaanisqatsi

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Scena finale del film Koyaanisqatsi (1982) di Godfrey Reggio, colonna sonora di Philip Glass.

Ko-Yaa-Nis-Qatsi, nella lingua degli indiani Hopi, significa:
1) vita folle 2) vita tumultuosa 3) vita sbilanciata 4) vita che si disintegra 5) uno stato di vita che chiama per un altro modo di vivere.

La profezie Hopi cantate in questo film:
« Se scaviamo cose preziose dalla terra, stiamo chiamando la catastrofe.»
« Prima del Giorno della Purificazione ci saranno ragnatele filate avanti e indietro nel cielo.»
« Un contenitore di ceneri potrebbe essere un giorno scagliato dal cielo, e potrebbe bruciare la terra e far bollire gli oceani.»