The Game of Life is a key subset of the wider field of cellular automatons. This paragraph from the Wikipedia article on cellular automatons gives a pretty good description of where Conway's work fits ...

A New Environment for Modeling. Tommaso Toffoll and Norman Margolus. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1987. 222 pp. $30. Addiction to cellular automata games is a sort of disease, like the PC Disease ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from John Conway's Game of Life If you're unfamiliar, the game is based around the idea of "cellular automaton" where each "cell" or "block" on the… The ...

In cellular automata, simple rules create elaborate structures. Now researchers can start with the structures and reverse-engineer the rules. Alexander Mordvintsev showed me two clumps of pixels on ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Spaceships and Cellular Automata Spaceships and Cellular Automata is a tower defense game set in space! Place different towers to defend your ship against ...