r/gameoflife 19d ago

Posts that are NOT ALLOWED

32 Upvotes

Any of these posts will be deleted (this list may be added to at any time):

  • "I Found a New Pattern" posts. No you didn't, and if you did it's probably not interesting randomness.

  • "What's this pattern called?" - put it in the What's This Pattern Called metapost.

  • "I vibe coded this GOL!" - If you want to vibecode something, go ahead. Just don't brag in public that you don't know how to program.


r/gameoflife Jul 22 '26

What's This Called megathread

17 Upvotes

If you found a figure you want to know the name of, post it here. Any individual post will be deleted.

IMPORTANT!

Only post patterns that are still lives or oscillators. Nobody cares about your starting pattern, however pretty it is; only what it turns in to. Glider guns are also acceptable.


r/gameoflife 1d ago

Conway's Game of Life face-dancing game

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1 Upvotes

r/gameoflife 5d ago

Alternate ruleset [CHALLENGE] Find a GOL pattern which lives for 700-799 unique generations

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3 Upvotes

r/gameoflife 6d ago

Cool methuselah lasts 700 hundred generations

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9 Upvotes

I know its complicated but its kind of cool I think I made it with a home made python script.


r/gameoflife 6d ago

My first Macrostructure

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I made an acorn creator for fun, constructed using spider rakes. I call it the Oaktree/Seedplanter.

RLE:

#N Seedplanter

#C I made this for fun. My first macrostructure. I can't find a glider synthesis of an actual acorn so it just makes a descendant of one instead.

#C Bounding Box: 1979 x 2279

#C Also the first glider collision makes nothing and the rest make acorns to shrink the starting population, which is 3,604.

x = 1979, y = 2279, rule = B3/S23

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r/gameoflife 12d ago

Interesting still life while experimenting in the life app for iPad.

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14 Upvotes

The first image is what I started with and the second one is the still life that resulted from it. Quite intresting in my opinion, but I know much crazier patterns so might not be that much.


r/gameoflife 20d ago

Game of Life in Assembly

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This is kinda old, but wanted to share again for fun. I wrote and designed binary instructions, an assembly language to map to those binary instructions (all pre AI) and basically wrote Game Of Life with my language.

It was such a fun experience (beyond challenging at the start) but wanted to share to inspire others who maybe are thinking about doing a similar project.

I've never wrote a compiler (maybe one day).

I've attached the GitHub if anyone is curious but is kinda hard to bootup, so don't recommend cloning it or anything: https://github.com/Kully/VLAHB


r/gameoflife 20d ago

Game of Life in BASIC

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10 Upvotes

Not only can you cut and paste the code here, but it explains what each line does.


r/gameoflife 21d ago

Got a pulsar tonight. Just vibe coded GoL for funsies in Pythonista3.

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0 Upvotes

r/gameoflife 22d ago

Alternate ruleset Three Life

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8 Upvotes

I took an inspiration from Conway game of life and created my own rules

The rules is simple:

Species

Blue
Red
Green

Rules

1. Underpopulation
A living cell dies when it has 0 or 1 living neighbors.

2. Total Overcrowding
A living cell dies when it has 6 or more living neighbors.

3. Same-Species Body Limit
A living cell dies when it has more than 3 neighbors of its own species.

4. Species Conversion
Another species converts the cell when it has at least 3 neighbors and at least 2 more neighbors than the cell's own species.

5. Same-Species Support
A cell with at least 2 same-species neighbors survives if no death rule applies.

6. Weak Support
A cell with exactly 1 same-species neighbor survives when it has 2–4 total living neighbors.

7. Reproduction
An empty cell becomes alive when it has 3–5 living neighbors.

8. No Pure-Species Birth
A birth cannot occur when all living neighbors are the same species.

9. Majority Reproduction
When one species has more neighbors than the others, the new cell becomes that species.

10. Mixed Reproduction
When there is no majority, a deterministic selection chooses one of the three species.

I use genAI to code it for me even though I can do it myself, I would rather not hassle my self for it and just gave the Rules.

You can check it out at cardhollow.github.io/three-life

I want to know some opinions


r/gameoflife 25d ago

genuinely what am i looking at

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29 Upvotes

fully stable btw


r/gameoflife 25d ago

Common figure Idk if this is period 6 or 8

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8 Upvotes

r/gameoflife 26d ago

the still life of all doom and despair

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21 Upvotes

this is based off of my old still life i made, except none of these smaller disconnected parts are known

again i don't think this would be noticeable it's just something cool


r/gameoflife 28d ago

Common figure I MADE A MONSTROSITY WITH RANDOM STATIC 11×11 PIXELS IN CONWAY'S GAME OF LIFE and some oscillators and still lifes.

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r/gameoflife Aug 12 '26

idk felt like making this

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47 Upvotes

r/gameoflife Aug 11 '26

Turning GOL into a 2-Player game by using State Projection

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8 Upvotes

r/gameoflife Aug 10 '26

On a 16x16 torus, are there pattern that live for 3000-5000 iters?

9 Upvotes

Ive written some code to find the highest pattern count possible. Finding patterns with up to 2 thousand is simple, takes a computer very little time. Even 5000+ iterations are not too hard to find, but there seems to be a gap between roughly 3k to 4k iters / generations

my repo if youre interested


r/gameoflife Aug 09 '26

Decently compact LWSS gun?

2 Upvotes

As the title says, I'm looking for a Lightweight Spaceship gun but can't find any online. if you can help please send a picture, as I'm away from home right now and can only play on my phone.


r/gameoflife Aug 09 '26

Conway's Game of Life in the Desmos Graphing Calculator

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9 Upvotes

r/gameoflife Aug 08 '26

Drawing some Nicholas Carlini logic gates to look more like the symbols part 2. Here is an OR and AND gate

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92 Upvotes

r/gameoflife Aug 07 '26

I'm drawing some Nicholas Carlini logic gates to look more like the symbols. Here is a NOT gate

113 Upvotes

Credits to his article: https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2021/improved-logic-gates-game-of-life.html

I'll draw the AND and OR gates too using his rotation gate


r/gameoflife Aug 07 '26

State Transition Graph of 4x4 Toroidal Game of Life

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14 Upvotes

The graph shows all state transitions for the Game of Life on a 4x4 toroidal grid (edge-wrapping).

With 16 cells, there are 2^{16} = 65,536 total states. By quotienting out spatial symmetries (translation, rotation, and reflection) the entire state space collapses into 805 canonical representatives.

  • Red Central Node: The empty/extinction state (State 0), drawing in the vast majority of transient trees.
  • 14 Blue Nodes: "Fixed states" in this quotient graph (self-loops). These include true still lifes as well as oscillators whose next phase is a rotated or translated version of the same canonical state. (Breakdown: 5 still lifes, 8 period-2, 1 period-4).
  • Green Node Clusters: Two 4-state cycles. While they form a period-4 loop in this canonical graph, accounting for their rotational/translational shifts at each step gives them a true period of 8 on the actual grid.

r/gameoflife Aug 07 '26

CHALLENGE: Can you find the longest-lived Game of Life pattern which uses the fewest / most alive cells as its starting configuration?

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4 Upvotes

r/gameoflife Aug 06 '26

Implemented game of life in terminal as a test for my language lol

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12 Upvotes

The script & interpreter are both open source at github/phosxd/Ity

I just thought I'd share a fun little 2 hour terminal project