Even Cylons started as single cells
In the 1940s John Conway tried to create a machine that could replicate itself. The Game of Life is how he did it.
Conway’s Game of Life is a two dimensional universe in which each single celled organism interacts with its
neighbors according to the following rules:
1. Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if caused by underpopulation.
2. Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overcrowding.
3. Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation.
4. Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell.
The initial pattern determines the outcome.
The was the beginning of cellular automata and led to single celled computer creatures in a world that could self-organize and behave in ways that weren’t programmed into them.
FEATURES
- Four different sets of rules for you to watch
- Original Conway’s Life 23/3
- Amoeba 1358/357 Rule ( forms random amoebas )
- Mazectric 1234/3 Rule ( forms mazes )
- Move 245/368 Rule (occasionally forms starships )
- Freeze the animation, let it run, or step through it a step at a time.
- One touch resets the board to a random configuration.
