John Conway's Game of Life

The Rules

The Game of Life was invented by John Conway (as you might have gathered). The game is played on a field of cells, each of which has eight neighbors (adjacent cells). A cell is either occupied (by an organism) or not. The rules for deriving a generation from the previous one are these:

John Conway

Neighbors 

• Death: 0,1,2 neighbors
• Life: 3,4 neighbors
• Death: 5,6,7,8 neighbors

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