Game of life Rules

The rules of the game are very simple, 3 rules affect living cells and 1 affects dead cells


  • 1Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if caused by under-population.
  • 2Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation.
  • 3Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overcrowding.
  • 4Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction.

After each rule is applied on the initial state a new state of the game appears, this means a new generation emerged. The game is based on successive iterations of these rules on the previous generations, generating a new state of the game


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