1 John Conway's Game of Life
5 The Game of Life was invented by John Conway (as you might have gathered).
6 The game is played on a field of cells, each of which has eight neighbors (adjacent cells).
7 A cell is either occupied (by an organism) or not.
8 The rules for deriving a generation from the previous one are these:
12 If an occupied cell has 2 or 3 neighbors, the organism survives to the next generation.
16 If an occupied cell has 0, 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8 occupied neighbors, the organism dies
17 (0, 1: of loneliness; 4 thru 8: of overcrowding).
21 If an unoccupied cell has 3 occupied neighbors, it becomes occupied.