Puzzle Description:

Conway's Game of Life is a program that controls many cells in a grid. You can download the app called "Golly" or find an online version on the internet. Then fill in the cells that are shown here in white and see what happens when you run it!

#1: Joseph Newton (Shroomyjoe) on Aug 14, 2013

Some more information about Conway's "Game" of Life:
It is a cellular automaton (a program that controls many cells) in which after each iteration/generation/tick/whatever you call it:
1) live cells with 4 or more of the eight cells around them living will die.
2) live cells with 1 or less of the eight cells around them living will die.
3) live cells with 2 or 3 of the eight cells around them living will stay alive.
4) dead cells with 3 living cells around them will come to life.

http://www.emergentuniverse.org/#/life That was fun.

I programmed one of these once, so that I could make logic circuits with it. It's lost on a hard drive many generations back now. :'(

I'm intrigued .. good puzzle for a Monday morning.
Thanks.

Gosper Glider Gun! For anybody who wants to see what this does (but the mirror image) without plotting it out...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Gospers_glider_gun.gif

Does it ever end??

Fun. It seems stable. You can introduce another element to disrupt it -- I think of that as a germ.

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