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The Game of Life

Created by: locos

Description (Game published on 2007-07-29)

Rules:

1. Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if by loneliness.

2. Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overcrowding.

3. Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives, unchanged, to the next generation.

4. Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours comes to life.

The Game of Life is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. It is the best-known example of a cellular automaton.

More info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway’s_Game_of_Life
You can create really interesting patterns or search them with Google.

Instructions

Click on a death cell to give life to it, click on a live cell to kill it. Drag over death cells to give them life, drag over live cells to kill them. Click on Step to go one generation further, Start to go on in automatic, Stop to pause, Clear to kill all the cells, Random to give life to random cells.

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johnstone000 Nov. 25, 2008: wow awesome game favorited =]

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locos Sep. 09, 2008: As mAxGeMmA says, nice pattern filling all the sides ! Wow almost 16,000 gameplays, thanks you all people !

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KingofDisco Sep. 04, 2008: A classic pseudo-game, that is always fun to watch. And a great song to put behind it! Thanks for introducing me to that song. ~ KOD

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hiironji Aug. 30, 2008: i left my sompy on for a while and when i stopped: 9,147,524,905,786,486,884,554,345,652,947,578,103,465,873,591 generations