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🧪 Conway's Game of Life: Cellular Automaton

Conway's Game of Life is a classic example of a cellular automaton, where simple rules governing the interaction of cells lead to surprisingly complex emergent behavior. Explore how patterns arise and disappear as you manipulate the initial state and observe the fascinating dynamics of this system. Added a density slider wired into the random-fill function, so the starting population's sparseness is under your control.

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Conway's Game of Life is a classic example of a cellular automaton, where simple rules governing the interaction of cells lead to surprisingly complex emergent behavior. Explore how patterns arise and disappear as you manipulate the initial state and observe the fascinating dynamics of this system. Added a density slider wired into the random-fill function, so the starting population's sparseness is under your control.

Game of Life

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

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