Conway's game of life | Conway's life | life

The game of life is the best-known two-dimensional cellular automaton, invented by John H. Conway and popularized in Martin Gardner's Scientific American column starting in October 1970. The game of life was originally played (i.e., successive generations were produced) by hand with counters, but implementation on a computer greatly increased the ease of exploring patterns.

cellular automaton | rule 110 | totalistic cellular automaton | universal cellular automaton | universality