Conway's Game of Life

Click and drag to draw on the grid, then press play

How does it work?

Conway's Game of Life is a zero player cell simulation that a british mathematician named John Conway designed in the seventies. It involves cells on a grid that live or die based on four simple rules:

1. Cells with less than 2 alive neighbors die from isolation
2. Cells with 2 or 3 alive neighbors survive
3. Cells with more than 3 alive neighbors die from overpopulation
4. Dead Cells with exactly 3 alive neighbors come alive

Interesting Pattern Examples

This example pauses the above simulation, and vice versa