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Vita shadow box on a wall

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Vita

GHS 350.00

Ready to hang · 3.5 cm deep · UV-protected · no glass

Made to order in about 4 days, then delivered anywhere in Ghana

Conway's Game of Life: Gosper's glider gun firing a stream of gliders across the frame.

Orientation Landscape
Size 45 × 30 cm
Edge Image wrap
Surface Canvas · Matte
Orientation
Landscape
Size
45 × 30 cm
Edge
Image wrap
Surface
Canvas · Matte
Depth
3.5 cm, hangs flush on the wall
Included with every shadow box
  • UV-protective varnish or laminate — fade-resistant and wipe-clean, made for Ghana's humidity
  • Moisture-resistant block: kiln-dried pine or fully sealed board, never raw MDF
  • Ready-to-hang hardware — D-ring and wire, or a flush French cleat on large sizes
  • Sealed dust backing and rubber wall bumpers so air can circulate
  • Corner-protected, boxed delivery anywhere in Ghana
GHS 350.00
  • Pay with Mobile Money (MTN, Telecel, AT) or card. Production starts once payment is confirmed.
  • Printed and built to order by a partner workshop in Ghana.
  • Damaged or not as ordered? Report a problem for a remake or refund.

The story behind this piece

Vita is Conway's Game of Life, simulated exactly under two rules. A dead cell with exactly three live neighbours is born, and a live cell with two or three survives (B3/S23). All others die. Bill Gosper's 1970 glider gun, 36 cells and the first pattern found to grow forever, fires a glider every 30 generations, and each glider crawls diagonally at a quarter cell per generation. Around the gun sit named still lifes and oscillators, such as blocks, beehives, blinkers and pulsars. They are placed so that nothing interacts, and the code checks this. The plate shows generation 330. Live cells glow, and each amber trail fades with the generations since that cell was last alive.

About this piece

Conway's Game of Life: Gosper's glider gun firing a stream of gliders across the frame.

Printed edge to edge on a 3.5 cm deep shadow-box block — no glass, no glare — and ready to hang straight out of the box. Made to order by a partner maker in Ghana.

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