artifact 0001 · cellular automata

Conway's Game of Life.

Click & drag on the grid to seed live cells. The state ticks every 200ms per Conway's rules: live cells with 2 or 3 neighbors survive, dead cells with exactly 3 neighbors are born, everyone else dies.


rulesB3/S23 tick200ms scale20px statusrunning
instructions Click any cell to toggle it live. Drag to paint multiple cells. The simulation advances one generation every 200ms — seed a glider ((0,1) (1,2) (2,0) (2,1) (2,2)) and watch it crawl.

Figure 1. Game-of-Life board. Live cells rendered in --fg, dead cells in --bg. Palette inverts with system dark mode.

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