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Can someone help me remember something?
It was a book, the kind of book where a mathematician or computer scientist describes curious and interesting topics, like cellular automata and Penrose tiling.
It described a board game program, for chess or checkers or tic-tac-toe, one of the common ones.
But instead of a normal program, the author described how it could be done with matchboxes containing coloured beads, and a few simple rules.
Or maybe it wasn't a board game.
Does this ring a bell for anyone?
It was a book, the kind of book where a mathematician or computer scientist describes curious and interesting topics, like cellular automata and Penrose tiling.
It described a board game program, for chess or checkers or tic-tac-toe, one of the common ones.
But instead of a normal program, the author described how it could be done with matchboxes containing coloured beads, and a few simple rules.
Or maybe it wasn't a board game.
Does this ring a bell for anyone?