Conway's Game of Life

A zero-player game invented by mathematician John Conway in 1970. Cells on a grid live or die by four simple rules — no input, no randomness; everything unfolds from the starting pattern.

Every generation, each cell counts its 8 neighbors:

• Loneliness — a live cell with fewer than 2 neighbors dies
• Survival — a live cell with 2 or 3 neighbors lives on
• Overcrowding — a live cell with more than 3 neighbors dies
• Birth — a dead cell with exactly 3 neighbors comes alive

In this app the grid is the floor and every generation is stacked on top of the last, so height = time: gliders trace diagonal ribbons, oscillators grow repeating columns, and dying patterns leave towers that simply… stop.

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