A game called 'life'

The concept of cellular automatons was developed at the end of '40 by John Von Neumann and Stanislaw Ulam. 'The game Life' was one of the first applications.It was invented in the late 60ties by John H. Conway, in order to simulate the evolution of colonies of living organisms.

The rules are simple:

1. cell that is dead becomes alive if exactly three of the eight neighbouring cells are alive

2. a cell that is alive dies if less than two or more than three neighbouring cells are alive

Based on these simple rules colonies grow, shrink, move, reproduce and influence other colonies, it only depends on the starting positions of the cells

to play 'life', click 'new', then set some initial cells and click on start.

enjoy!