A pop-up Java applet that displays a collection of the greatest patterns ever created in Conway's Game of Life. All rights reserved. P oll results and commentary are posted for my first Life poll, answering the question why people visit this page. You can find out about it here .
Life is rich in terminology.
If you don't know the meaning of a word that you find here, I encourage you to look it up in Stephen Silver's Life Lexicon . On a historical note, here is the original article from the October 1970 issue of Scientific American which introduced the game to the public. Jason Summers' Life Page - hundreds of patterns, and pretty well kept up to date. Koenig's Life Page Dean Hickerson's Life Page David Eppstein's Life Page David Bell's Life Page - for the spaceship enthusiast. Too Big for the Applet It has long been known that it is possible to construct a Turing machine in Conway's game of Life, but that it would be large and difficult.