Conway's Game of Life is a cellular automaton that is played on a 2D square grid. Each square (or "cell") on the grid can be either alive or dead, and they evolve according to the following rules: Any …

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Conway's Game of Life, also known as the Game of Life or simply Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. It is the best-known example of a cellular …

This book provides an introduction to Conway's Game of Life, the interesting mathematics behind it, and the methods used to construct many of its most interesting patterns.

Apr 11, 2022 · LifeWiki is a wiki designed with the hope of collecting all information about Conway's Game of Life together in one place. It contains a comprehensive catalogue of patterns as well as a …

Jun 17, 2025 · The fantastic combinations of John Conway's new solitaire game "life" - The original article describing Conway's Game of Life. Written by Martin Gardner and published in the October …

Eater 1 (or fishhook or simply eater) is a 7-cell still life and the smallest asymmetric still life, [1] observed independently by several Life enthusiasts in 1971.

5 days ago · Introduce yourselves to other members of the forums, discuss how your name evolves when written out in the Game of Life, or just tell us how you found it. Forum rules still apply.

Users are invited to submit interesting and noteworthy patterns, their own or others'; following discussion, a final list is then curated, and a public vote held. There are only two hard and fast rules: …

The glider (or featherweight spaceship [1]) is the smallest, most common, and first-discovered spaceship in Game of Life. It travels diagonally across the grid at a speed of c/4.