Game of life

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How to play Game of life

Tap cells to turn them on or off. Press play and the simulation runs the rules. Each cell with two or three live neighbours stays alive, each dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes alive, everything else dies. Watch your pattern grow, shrink, glide or stabilise. Pause whenever you want to add new cells. Reset clears the board.

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About Game of life

John Conway's Game of Life is from 1970 and was first published in Martin Gardner's column in Scientific American. It is technically not a game, you do not play it, you watch it. Three rules per cell turn a flat grid into evolving patterns that researchers have studied for fifty years. People have built calculators, clocks, and even a simulation of the Game of Life inside the Game of Life. Our version is the original ruleset on a fast canvas.

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