<center>&nbsp;&nbsp;This site will be unavailable for up to two hours from 2300 UTC on Wednesday 2021-03-03 owing to server maintenance.&nbsp;&nbsp;</center> Quinapalus Home :: Things Technical :: The Wireworld computer These pages describe how we went about building a Wireworld computer. Although at least one design exists for a tape-based Turing machine implemented in the ‘Game of Life’, ours is, as far as we know, the first ever computer implemented as a cellular automaton that you might reasonably want to write a program for. The design was done by David Moore and Mark Owen, with the help of many others, between 1990 and 1992. It’s a testament to our modesty that it was not until September 2004 that we wrote up our work. You will need a browser capable or rendering looped animated GIFs to fully appreciate the pages that follow. Some of the image files are quite large. ...