Interactive Life research lab
Watch Conway's Game of Life unfold
Start with a blinker that changes in one step, then try moving, chaotic, and engineered patterns. Choose a demo and press Run.
Recommended demosFrom an obvious first change to a working signal factory
Simulation status
Generations0
Live cells3
Reference period2
Measured on this board
No complete repeat observed yet. The detector compares up to 128 recent shapes.
Outside this finite board, cells are held dead. Reference facts describe the preset on an unbounded plane; measured repeats describe this board.
Explore every pattern family