A community for Conway's Game of Life and related cellular automata.

Oct 25, 2024 · Welcome to LifeWiki, the wiki for Conway's Game of Life. Currently contains 2,709 articles.

Conway's Game of Life, also known as the Game of Life or simply Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. It is the best-known …

Conway's Game of Life is a cellular automaton that is played on a 2D square grid. Each square (or "cell") on the grid can be either alive or dead, and they evolve according to the following …

Jun 17, 2025 · LifeWiki:Life links See also: LifeWiki:Bookshelf, Category:Glossary This page contains a comprehensive list of links to important sites about Conway's Game of Life and …

A textbook for mathematical aspects of Conway's Game of Life and methods of pattern construction.

History The first gun to be discovered, the Gosper glider gun, was found by Bill Gosper in 1970, being the first known pattern in Conway's Game of Life to exhibit infinite growth. Since then, …

Sep 8, 2025 · For many years Conway consistently "rounded up" his discovery of the Game of Life to 1970. Occurrence Main article: List of natural spaceships The glider is often produced …

All the patterns in this catalog were carefully chosen by Alan Hensel from the vast array of results that have accumulated in the years since Conway first proposed the Game of Life. Note: If …

Mar 14, 2020 · A 13-glider synthesis of the Gosper glider gun was found no later than February 1971, and was featured in Martin Gardner 's second column on Conway's Game of Life after …