Overview
This is an implementation of John Conway’s Game of Life. In Life, “cells” live on a two-dimensional grid and survive, reproduce, and die based on four rules:
- Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies.
- Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies.
- Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on.
- Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell.
Controls
Click or tap a cell on the board to toggle it's state. The board is larger than the view window. Scroll using gestures or the scroll bars. Select a starting pattern to use from the dropdown box.
Advance the simulation one step.
Play the simulation forward at 1x speed
Play the simulation forward at 4x speed
Pause the simulation
Load the selected board setup
Toggle this help screen
Zoom in (make cells larger)
Zoom out (make cells smaller)
Reset zoom to default
The grid is now larger than before. Use scrollbars or drag to pan around the grid.
Code by Doug Sartori © 2020 based on "SimpleLife" © 2009. See license file for terms.
Icons by © 2014 Andreas Kainz & Uri Herrera & Andrew Lake & Marco Martin & Harald Sitter & Jonathan Riddell & Ken Vermette & Aleix Pol & David Faure & Albert Vaca & Luca Beltrame & Gleb Popov & Nuno Pinheiro & Alex Richardson & Jan Grulich & Bernhard Landauer & Heiko Becker & Volker Krause & David Rosca & Phil Schaf / KDE, LGPL, Link