The Game of Life

The Game of Life, originally concieved by Professor John Conway of Princeton, is a 2D cellular automata with a very simple update rule. If the number of neighbors in the .

The Game of Life is known to be Computation-Universal. That is, it can simulate a turing machine, and in turn, can do any computation any other digital computer can do, provided there is sufficient space and time.

The movie to the left was created using StarLogo, a fancy massively parallel extension of the classic language "Logo". StarLogo was invented by Prof. Michael Resnick at MIT.

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Created on 6/23/98 by Hide Oki

Last Updated: 6/23/98