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The Game of Life is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. It is the best-known example of a cellular automaton. The "game" is actually a zero-player game, meaning that its evolution is determined by its initial state, needing no input from human players. One interacts with the Game of Life by creating an initial configuration and observing how it evolves. The universe of the Game of Life is an infinite two-dimensional orthogonal grid of square... full article at wikipedia
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Created by Metaweb Oct 22, 2006
Last edited by mwcl_images May 7, 2008

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