Play John Conway’s Game of Life
Play the Game of Life online, a single player game invented in 1970 by Cambridge mathematician John Conway.
4-8-12 diamond - John Conway’s Game of Life
It is a cellular automaton, and was invented by Cambridge mathematician John Conway. This game became widely known when it was mentioned in an article published by Scientific American in 1970. It consists of a grid of cells which, based on a …
Infinite growth - John Conway’s Game of Life
Growth of a finite pattern such that the population tends to infinity, or at least is unbounded. Sometimes the term is used for growth of something other than population (for example, length), but here we will only consider infinite population growth.
Anvil - John Conway’s Game of Life
It is a cellular automaton, and was invented by Cambridge mathematician John Conway. This game became widely known when it was mentioned in an article published by Scientific American in 1970. It consists of a grid of cells which, based on a …
4g-to-5g reaction - John Conway’s Game of Life
A reaction involving 4 gliders which cleanly produces 5 gliders. The one shown below was found by Dieter Leithner in July 1992: The first two gliders collide to produce a traffic light and glider. The other two gliders react symmetrically with the evolving traffic light to form four gliders.
Puffer train - John Conway’s Game of Life
Puffer train. The full name for a puffer, coined by Conway before any examples were known. The term was also applied specifically to the classic puffer train found by Bill Gosper and shown below. This is very dirty, and the tail does not stabilize until generation 5533.
119P4H1V0 - John Conway’s Game of Life
119P4H1V0. A spaceship discovered by Dean Hickerson in December 1989, the first spaceship of its kind to be found. Hickerson then found a small tagalong for this spaceship which could be attached to one side or both.
(23,5)c/79 Herschel climber - John Conway’s Game of Life
The following glider-supported Herschel climber reaction used in the self-supporting waterbear knightship, which can be repeated every 79 ticks, moving the Herschel 23 cells to the right and 5 cells upward, and releasing two gliders to the northwest and southwest.
1-2-3-4 - John Conway’s Game of Life
It is a cellular automaton, and was invented by Cambridge mathematician John Conway. This game became widely known when it was mentioned in an article published by Scientific American in 1970. It consists of a grid of cells which, based on a …
Gosper glider gun - John Conway’s Game of Life
The first known gun, and indeed the first known finite pattern displaying infinite growth, found by Bill Gosper in November 1970. This period 30 gun remains the smallest known gun in terms of its bounding box, though some variants of the p120 Simkin glider gun have a lower population.