Created in 1970 by John Horton Conway English mathematician at Cambridge Univesity, England.
Play the Game of Life
4 simple rules:
1) every cell with zero or one neighbors dies from isolation
2) every cell with two or three neighbors survives to the next generation
3) every cell with four or more neighbors dies from overpopulation
4) every cell next to exactly 3 neighbors comes to life
Ref:
Conway's Game of Life wikipedia Gun Cellular Automaton
John Horton Conway's Game of Life is Turing complete !!! The Art of Code Dylan Beattie (skip to 4:39 into the video)
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