The Game of Life is a cellular automaton created by the English 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 input from human players.

The game is played on a square grid, with each square containing a finite number of cells. At each step in the game, a living cell can either survive unchanged, or die and be replaced by a new living cell, which is chosen at random from the surrounding eight cells.

The Game of Life can be used to model a …