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