Game of Life

Conway's "Game of Life" is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Conway. It follows simple rules:

  1. Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if by underpopulation.
  2. Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation.
  3. Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overpopulation.
  4. 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.

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