still life

See also: still-life

English

a still life

Alternative forms

• still-life

Etymology

Calque of Dutch stilleven.

Noun

still life (plural still lifes or still lives)

1. (painting) A work of art depicting an arrangement of inanimate objects.
2. (cellular automata, usually countable) A pattern that does not change from one generation to the next.

   Hyponyms: beehive, block, boat, loaf, ship

   • 1992 May 5, Holocaust-->Travesty, “the Hodge Podge machine”, in comp.theory.cell-automata‎^[1] (Usenet):

     I think you're talking about a configuration known as "eater," a still life in 6-8 cells. If the glider hits the right spot, the eater will form a bridge and destroy the glider while undergoing little change before reverting.

   • 1996 November 16, Paul Callahan, “Still-life glider reflector found”, in comp.theory.cell-automata‎^[2] (Usenet):

     Thus, a natural question, apparently proposed very early, was whether there exists a still life (i.e. period 1 oscillator) that reflects a glider.

   • 2003 December 12, Tony Finch, “Implementing Conway's Life”, in comp.theory.cell-automata‎^[3] (Usenet):

     I haven't tested yet, but I expect hlife to win by a very large margin since the puffer train has lots of still life and blinkers to make Gosper's algorithm look good, and hlife's low-level implementation is quite good at handling the more random parts.

Synonyms

• (work of art): nature morte

Translations

work of art

• Afrikaans: stillewe, stilleweskilderkuns
• Armenian: նատյուրմորտ (hy) (natyurmort)
• Azerbaijani: natürmort
• Belarusian: нацюрмо́рт m (nacjurmórt)
• Bulgarian: натюрмо́рт (natjurmórt)
• Catalan: natura morta (ca), bodegó (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 靜物畫 / 静物画 (jìngwùhuà)

• Czech: zátiší (cs)
• Danish: stilleben n
• Dutch: stilleven (nl) n
• Esperanto: muta naturo, senviva sceno, aĵpentraĵo
• Finnish: asetelma (fi)
• French: nature morte (fr) f
• Galician: natureza morta f
• Georgian: ნატურმორტი (naṭurmorṭi)
• German: Stillleben (de) n
• Greek: νεκρή φύση (el) f (nekrí fýsi)
• Hungarian: csendélet (hu)
• Irish: neamhbheo
• Italian: natura morta f
• Japanese: 静物画 (ja) (せいぶつが, seibutsuga)
• Kazakh: натюрморт (natürmort)
• Korean: 정물화(靜物畵) (jeongmulhwa)
• Latin: natura mortua f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stilleben n

  Nynorsk: stilleben n

• Polish: martwa natura (pl) f
• Portuguese: natureza-morta (pt) f, natureza morta f
• Romanian: natură moartă (ro)
• Russian: натюрмо́рт (ru) m (natjurmórt)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мртва природа f

  Roman: mrtva priroda f

• Slovene: tihožitje (sl) n
• Spanish: bodegón (es) m, naturaleza muerta f
• Swedish: stilleben (sv) n
• Tajik: натюрморт (natyurmort)
• Turkish: natürmort (tr), ölüdoğa (tr)
• Ukrainian: натюрмо́рт m (natjurmórt)
• Vietnamese: tĩnh vật hoạ (靜物畫)
• Welsh: bywyd llonydd m