Quantomaton

Quantomaton is a zero-player game based on Conway’s Game of Life, and a small collection of cyclic music pieces. You can think of it as a music album with a visualiser attached, or as a cellular automaton with a soundtrack. About the game: Conway’s Game of Life is probably the most famous example of a cellular automaton – a grid of cells that evolves through different generations based on a few simple rules. It was invented (or discovered, depending on how you look at it) by mathematician John Conway. Over the course of the game, the cells form various patterns determined by the initial configuration of the grid. Quantomaton takes the Game of Life as its starting point, and adds a quantum-mechanical twist to it. Classical rules • All cells can be alive or dead • Live cells stay alive if they have either two or three live neighbours • Dead cells turn alive if they have exactly three live…