#13 Conway’s Game of Life
Conway’s Game of Life is a cellular automata simulation that follows simple rules to create interesting patterns. It was invented by mathematician John Conway in 1970 and popularized by Martin Gardner’s “Mathematical Games” column in Scientific American. Today, it’s a favorite among programmers and computer scientists, though it’s more an interesting visualization than a true “game.” The two-dimensional board has a grid of “cells,” each of which follows three simple rules:
- Living cells with two or three neighbors stay alive in the next step of the simulation.
- Dead cells with exactly three neighbors become alive ...
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