Thank you for visiting gameofflife.com, A tribute for Game of life, a zero-player game invented by the British mathematician John Horton Conway.

Conway was attempting to solve a problem that was suggested by the Hungarian mathematication John Van Neuman which is known as the "Self-replicating spacecraft", A hypothetical machine to colonize the planets. As Conway tried to simplify Van Neuman's game, he invented Game of Life.

The game starts with an initial state of live and dead cells that evolve into subsequent states based on the following set of rules that Conway set:

• Any live cell with fewer than 2 live neighbours dies, as if caused by underpopulation
• Any live cell with 2 or 3 live neighbours lives on to the next generation
• Any live cell with more than 3 live neighbours dies, as if by overpopulation
• Any dead cell with exactly 3 live neighbours becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction

gameofflife.com allows the player to modify Conway's rules original values which produces different patterns and behaviours that are worth seeing and interacting with.

As the game progresses and the rules are applied, patterns appear and disappear spontaneously, randomly yet in coherence to each other mimicking real world's life as they interact, oscillate, merge, reproduce and extinct.

Feb 24, 2018: I found that Stephen Hawking talks about Conway's Game Of Life in the last chapter of his book, The Grand Design, which i highly recommend.

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