Home▸Biology & Life▸2D Game of Life

2D Game of Life — Flat Cellular Automaton

A flat 2D Conway's Game of Life: click or drag to toggle cells, load famous patterns (glider, Gosper gun, pulsar, acorn, diehard), pick B3/S23 or five other rulesets, and step through generations at any speed on a resizable grid.

Biology & Life2DEasy60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

Details

CategoryBiology & Life

RenderingCanvas 2D

DifficultyEasy

Target FPS60

ControlsClick or drag on the grid to toggle cells alive/dead; Play/Pause and Step buttons control generation playback; Clear and Randomize reset the board. Sliders set grid size (20-100), random-seed density (5-60%) and speed (1-30 generations per second); dropdowns load a preset pattern or switch between six B/S rulesets.

cellular automatonConwayGame of Lifeemergence2d

Related simulations

Aquarium — Fish Schooling SimulationExplore the dynamic behavior of fish as they school together in this realistic aquarium…

SIR Epidemic ModelParticles spread infection by proximity. Tune β, γ, vaccinate and watch R₀ and the epidemic…

L-Systems — Procedural PlantsLindenmayer rewriting rules grow plants, fractal curves and space-filling patterns. 10… ⊞ All 149 in Biology & Life →

This is the flat, top-down companion to the 3D Game of Life simulator. It runs the exact same B3/S23-family rules on a wrap-around grid, but draws every cell as a plain flat square with no camera, height or rotation — click or drag to toggle cells by hand, load classic patterns like the glider or Gosper glider gun, and watch generations advance at any speed.

⚙ Under the hood

A flat 2D Conway's Game of Life: click or drag to toggle cells, load famous patterns (glider, Gosper glider gun, pulsar, acorn, R-pentomino, diehard), pick from six classic rulesets, and step through generations at any speed on a resizable wrap-around grid.

cellular automatonConwayGame of Lifeemergence2d

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install