Glife.zip ❲Firefox HOT❳

: Patterns that return to their original state after a few steps. Spaceships : Patterns that "walk" across the grid forever.

: Any live cell with more than three live neighbors dies. glife.zip

: Any live cell with two or three live neighbors lives on. : Patterns that return to their original state

At its heart, a file like glife.zip usually contains a simulation of . It isn't a "game" in the traditional sense—there are no players. Instead, it is a zero-player game where the initial state determines everything that follows. The Grid : An infinite two-dimensional grid of square cells. The States : Each cell is either alive or dead . : Any live cell with two or three live neighbors lives on

If you were to peek inside the code of a glife executable, you would find four elegant, simple rules: