Standard Conway's Game of Life rules. Deterministic evolution.
🎬 Scenes
🧩 Patterns
🎨 Cell Age
150+
💾 Import / Export
LMB draw / place pattern · RMB erase Space start/pause · → step
📖 How to Play
Game of Life is a cellular automaton devised by mathematician John Conway in 1970. It's a zero-player game — you set up the initial state and watch it evolve!
🔬 The Rules
Each cell can be alive or dead. Every generation, cells change based on their 8 neighbors:
🌱 Birth: A dead cell with exactly 3 live neighbors becomes alive.
💚 Survival: A live cell with 2 or 3 live neighbors stays alive.
💀 Death: A live cell with <2 (underpopulation) or >3 neighbors (overpopulation) dies.
🧬 Evolution Modes
To prevent stagnation, several mutation modes are available:
Classic — original deterministic rules
Noise — random births/deaths ("cosmic rays")
Immigration — periodic influx of new cells
Mutating Rules — cells inherit slightly modified rules from parents
🧬 Mutating Rules: Each cell has its own rule parameters (loneliness, overcrowding, birth thresholds). When a cell is born, it inherits parameters from a random neighbor with small random mutations. Over time, "fitter" rules dominate — a form of natural selection!