Heaton Life

Heaton Life is an app for exploring emergence: simple rules that grow complex, organic, surprisingly lifelike behavior. It brings the classic systems of artificial life together in one place, lets you paint and edit them, breeds brand-new rules, and keeps everything you make in a library of worlds. TEN KINDS OF LIFE • MergeLife — colorful cellular automata where every rule is a hex code. Start from the gallery of featured rules, then breed your own. • Life-like — Conway's Game of Life and its relatives: HighLife, Seeds, Day & Night, or any B/S rulestring you type. • Elementary — Wolfram's one-dimensional rules 0–255, drawn one row per generation. • Cyclic — states that consume one another into spirals and demons. • Wireworld — electrons on wires. Build circuits from the included clock and diode. • Lenia — three flavors (Classic, Asymptotic, Flow) of continuous Life, where smooth,…