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Rules of the Game
A cell can be alive or dead. Its status can change with each turn of the game depending on the statuses of its 8 neighbors.
1. If the cell is alive and has two or three neighbors, then it remains alive. Else it dies.
2. If the cell is dead and has exactly three neighbors, then it comes to life. Otherwise it remains dead.
Conway's Game of Life
The Game of Life was invented by mathematician John Conway in 1970. The program stimulates a cellular automaton.
Interact with the game by creating a configuration or select one of the sample patterns and push 'start'. Following specification of this initial state, patterns evolve over time across the grid requiring no further user input (thus ‘zero-player’).
It is Turing complete and can simulate a universal constructor or any other Turing machine.
Conway's Game of Life
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