# Conway's Game of Life  ## Metadata - Author: [[Chris Lipa]] - Full Title: Conway's Game of Life - Category: #articles - Summary: Conway's Game of Life is played on an infinite grid where cells can be alive or dead, changing status based on their neighbors. The game follows simple rules that determine whether cells live, die, or reproduce each generation. Various patterns can emerge, some stabilizing while others evolve unpredictably, and the game can even simulate logic and computations. - URL: https://pi.math.cornell.edu/~lipa/mec/lesson6.html ## Highlights - Conway carefully examined various rule combinations according to the following three criteria: • There should be no initial pattern for which there is a simple proof that the population can grow without limit. • There should be initial patterns that apparently do grow without limit. • There should be simple initial patterns that grow and change for a considerable period of time before coming to an end in the following possible ways: 2. Fading away completely (from overcrowding or from becoming too sparse) 4. Settling into a stable configuration that remains unchanged thereafter, or entering an oscillating phase in which they repeat an endless cycle of two or more periods. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jdb02gwbrhhjmywd182p2n0j))