Conway's "Game of Life" is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Conway. It follows simple rules:
- Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if by underpopulation.
- Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation.
- Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overpopulation.
- Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction.
One interacts with the Game of Life by creating an initial configuration and observing how it evolves.