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Conway Game of Life app for iPhone and iPad


4.4 ( 1744 ratings )
Games Educational Simulation
Developer: Ye Hua
Free
Current version: 1.0, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 04 Jan 2014
App size: 656 Kb

The Game of Life is a famous cellular automation devised y the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. The "game" is a zero-player game, meaning that its evolution is determined by its initial state, requiring no further input. One interacts with the Game of Life by creating an initial configuration and observing how it evolves. Here the app applies some simple rules: 1. Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if caused by under-population. 2. Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation. 3. Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overcrowding. 4. Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction. Once the initial pattern has been set, the rules continue to be applied repeatedly to create further generations.