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.
Acorn - 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 …
Queen bee shuttle - John Conway’s Game of Life
Queen bee shuttle. Found by Bill Gosper in 1970. There are a number of ways to stabilize the ends. Gosper originally stabilized shuttles against one another in a square of eight shuttles. Two simpler methods are shown here; for a third see buckaroo.
2c/3 wire - John Conway’s Game of Life
Each 2c/3 signal is made up of two half-signals that can be separated from each other by an arbitrary number of ticks. Considerable effort has been spent on finding a way to turn a 2c/3 signal 90 or 180 degrees, since this would by one way to prove Life to be omniperiodic.
Infinite growth - John Conway’s Game of Life
In October 2014, Michael Simkin discovered a three-glider collision that produces a glider-producing stabilized switch engine and thus produces infinite growth from the smallest possible number of gliders (since all 71 2-glider collisions have a finite limit population).
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 …
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.
Gosper glider gun - John Conway’s Game of Life
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. Gosper later constructed several other guns, such as new gun and the p144 gun shown under factory. See also p30 gun. Game of Life Explanation.
7x9 eater - John Conway’s Game of Life
A high-clearance eater5 variant that can suppress passing gliders in tight spaces, such as on the inside corner of an R64 Herschel conduit. Like the eater5 and sidesnagger, the 7×9 eater is able to eat gliders coming from two directions, though this ability is not commonly used.