Glife.zip

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

: Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbors dies. glife.zip

: 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

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 . Spaceships : Patterns that "walk" across the grid forever

Why do developers still share .zip files of a simulation from 1970? Because glife is a bridge between . Turing Completeness