Conway Life

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Conway's Game of Life on a 60 × 30 toroidal grid (edges wrap around), running the standard B3/S23 rules. Cells are coloured by age — near white when just born, dimmer the longer they survive — so movement and trails read at a glance.

Screenshots

Shortcuts

Key	Action
Space / GO	Run / pause
n	Advance a single generation
r	Random soup (~30% density)
c	Clear
1–6	Load pattern: glider / glider gun / pulsar / LWSS / R-pentomino / acorn
; , . / / arrows / EASD	Move the cursor (auto-pauses for editing)
Enter	Toggle the cell under the cursor
- =	Speed level 1–5
h	Help
ESC / GO	Back to the game shelf

Rules

Every generation updates at once, based only on how many of the 8 neighbours are alive:

Now	Live neighbours	Next
Alive	< 2	Dies (underpopulation)
Alive	2 or 3	Survives
Alive	> 3	Dies (overcrowding)
Dead	= 3	Born

Built-in patterns

Key	Pattern	Behaviour
1	GLIDER	Smallest spaceship, crawls diagonally
2	GUN	Gosper glider gun, period 30, emits gliders forever
3	PULSAR	Large period-3 oscillator
4	LWSS	Lightweight spaceship, flies horizontally
5	R-PENT	Five cells that take 1103 generations to settle
6	ACORN	Seven cells that explode into a thousand generations

Notes

• The top bar shows generation G, population P, the current pattern name and the run state.
• A fully static board is marked STILL, a period-2 loop OSC, and an empty board DEAD. Evolution stops automatically once still or dead.
• Because the edges wrap, a glider leaving the right side comes back on the left, so patterns on a small grid usually end up interfering with themselves.