The Game of Life is a key subset of the wider field of cellular automatons. This paragraph from the Wikipedia article on cellular automatons gives a pretty good description of where Conway's work fits ...
A New Environment for Modeling. Tommaso Toffoll and Norman Margolus. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1987. 222 pp. $30. Addiction to cellular automata games is a sort of disease, like the PC Disease ...
In cellular automata, simple rules create elaborate structures. Now researchers can start with the structures and reverse-engineer the rules. Alexander Mordvintsev showed me two clumps of pixels on ...
All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Spaceships and Cellular Automata Spaceships and Cellular Automata is a tower defense game set in space! Place different towers to defend your ship against ...