Conway's Game of Life

The Game of Life, also known simply as Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970.

Description

The "game" is a zero-player game, meaning that its evolution is determined by its initial state, requiring no further input.

One interacts with the Game of Life by creating an initial configuration and observing how it evolves or, for advanced players, by creating patterns with particular properties.

People influenced by Conway's Game of Life

• Guido van Rossum

See also

• Artificial life
• Automaton
• Brian's Brain
• Cellular automaton
• Combinatorial game theory
• Game
• Game theory
• Glider (Conway's Life)
• Guido van Rossum
• Langton's ant
• Mathematics
• Poietic Generator
• Rule 110

External Links

• Conway's Game of Life @ Wikipedia
• The Game of Three Dimensional Life @ cse.sc.edu
• Conway's Game Of Life... Now in 3D! by Samuel Levy
  • Via Game of Life in 3D @ Boing Boing

Examples

• D3.js JavaScript library - D3.js is a JavaScript library for data visualization