The Game of Life (often called LIFE for short) is a cellular automata simulation that was invented by the British mathematician John Conway back in 1970. This sounds complex, but it's really quite simple—LIFE is a zero-player game that consists of a two-dimensional binary lattice of cells that are either considered live or dead. The lattice is iteratively updated by the following set of rules:
- Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbors dies
- Any live cell with two or three neighbors lives
- Any live cell with more than three neighbors dies
- Any dead cell with exactly three neighbors comes to life
These four simple rules give rise to a complex simulation with interesting mathematical properties that is also aesthetically ...
