Game of Life: Playground

The Game of Life is the cellular automaton devised by mathematician John Conway in 1970. Each cell lives or dies based only on how many of its eight neighbors are alive, yet these simple rules produce still lifes, blinking oscillators, spaceships that travel across the grid, and even guns that fire an endless stream of gliders. It is a classic introduction to complex systems, emergence and the theory of computation. BUILT-IN PATTERN LIBRARY - 736 famous patterns from the Life Lexicon, organized into still lifes, oscillators, spaceships, guns, puffers and rakes, methuselahs, and other structures - Period, speed and size shown for every pattern, with search by name - Load a glider, the Gosper glider gun or a spaceship with one tap CREATE YOUR OWN - Tap the grid to add or remove cells - Set the grid width and height anywhere from 2 to 256 - Fill the grid at random, or clear it and start…