Conway's Game Of Life

The universe of the Game of Life is an infinite two-dimensional orthogonal grid of square cells, each of which is in one of two possible states, alive or dead. Every cell interacts with its eight neighbours, which are the cells that are horizontally, vertically, or diagonally adjacent. At each step in time, the following transitions occur:

Rules

1. Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if caused by under-population.

2. Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation.

3. Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by over-population.

4. Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction.

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This implimentation takes Conway's basic rules a step further by making newborn cells inherit their color based on the taking an R, G, and B color value from each of its 3 neighbors. The newborns also start out with 10% opacity which increases 10% each turn until it reaches 100% or dies.

Steps

1. Choose a grid size.

2. Select different colors and place live cell on the board.

3. Pause, adjust speed, or toggle grid color at any time.

4. Try some of the recommended patterns to get better results.