Game of Life
26th August 2021
The Game of Life is a cellular automaton simulation created by mathematician John Conway in 1970. It simulates the birth, death and survival of cells on a grid.
How it works
The rules are:
- Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbors dies, as if by underpopulation.
- Any live cell with two or three live neighbors lives on to the next generation.
- Any live cell with more than three live neighbors dies, as if by overpopulation.
- Any live cell with exactly three live neighbors becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction.
These rules are applied to each cell on the grid in a repetitive manner, and the resulting pattern is observed. The Game of Life can exhibit fascinating patterns from seemingly simple starting patterns.