Conway’s Game of Life

The Game of Life is a cellular automaton created by the mathematician John Conway in 1970. It is a zero player game, all the user does is click on a grid of cells to set each cell to one of two states: alive or dead. After that, the game uses a set of rules to decide what happens to each cell. Interestingly, the Game of Life is Turing complete, meaning that it has the exact same capabilities and limitations of any computer. More details about the Game of Life can be found in my paper below, along with some GIFs generated by my Python code.

The Pulsar
The R-Pentomino