Conway's Game of Life is a popular cellular automaton created by mathematician John Horton Conway. With only a handful of simple rules, it can yield amazingly complex emergent behavior. Game of Life is governed by the following four rules:
- Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if by underpopulation.
- Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation.
- Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overpopulation.
- Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction.
Click on the grid to create live cells.
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Adjust the slider to change the simulation speed.
Once you are ready, press Begin Simulation to start processing the cellular automata.