Conway's Game of Life

A single Gosper's glider gun creating gliders
A screenshot of a puffer-type breeder (red) that leaves glider guns (green) in its wake, which in turn create gliders (blue) (animation)

The Game of Life, also known simply as Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970.[1] It is a zero-player game,[2][3] meaning that its evolution is determined by its initial state, requiring no further input. One interacts with the Game of Life by creating an initial configuration and observing how it evolves. It is Turing complete and can simulate a universal constructor or any other Turing machine.

  1. ^ Gardner, Martin (October 1970). "The fantastic combinations of John Conway's new solitaire game 'life'" (PDF). Mathematical Games. Scientific American. Vol. 223, no. 4. pp. 120–123. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1070-120. JSTOR 24927642. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-10-09.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference bcg was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Izhikevich, Eugene M.; Conway, John H.; Seth, Anil (2015-06-21). "Game of Life". Scholarpedia. 10 (6): 1816. Bibcode:2015SchpJ..10.1816I. doi:10.4249/scholarpedia.1816. ISSN 1941-6016.

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