Description
This is an animated simulation of the
Conway's Game of Life.
The state of the cell grid is updated every 3 seconds.
Right click on the cell grid to toggle pause.
Left click on a cell in the grid to toggle its state.
Press the spacebar to clear all cells in the grid.
If there are no cells alive in the grid and the simulation is not paused,
randomly selected cells will be set to the alive state.
License
You may use this application under the terms of the Open Source
GNU Lesser General Public License version 3.0 (LGPLv3).
The source code is available from the
CroftSoft Code Library.
Installation
In addition to using the applet at the top of this webpage, you can install
the program as a desktop application by clicking on this link:
life.jnlp
If it does not install, check that you have
Java installed first,
version 6 or above.
Future
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