Conway’s Game of Life
The Game of Life wasinveted by John Conway in 1970.
The game shows that a set of simple rules can create an emergent behaviour
The rules that apply to this grid are:
- Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if caused by underpopulation.
- Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overcrowding.
- Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation.
- Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell.
The game opened up a whole new field of mathematical research, the field of cellular automata