Conway's Game of Life
A cellular automaton devised by mathematician John Conway in 1970 and spread by Martin Gardner's Scientific American column. Simple rules on a grid produce gliders, oscillators and surprisingly complex shapes.
Spot it
- 01Grid of tiny squares
- 02Glider and block patterns
- 03Organic cell colonies
Why it happens
Each cell lives or dies depending on how many of its eight neighbors are alive, and repeating those rules across generations creates emergent patterns from simple local interaction.
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