Conway's Game of Life

Contents

  1. Introduction: What is Life?
  2. The rules
  3. Basic patterns
    1. Some small patterns
    2. Still lives
    3. Oscillators
    4. Spaceships
    5. The eater
  4. Complex patterns
    1. Overweight spaceships
    2. Puffer trains
    3. Glider collisions
    4. The Gosper gun
  5. The Life computer
    1. Logic gates
    2. Making a thin gun
    3. Further computing
  6. Conclusion
Copyright © 2004 Peter Berry