Instructions: Click the mouse on the area you wish to give life to. When you think you're done, click the Next button to see the next generation. Or, click Animate to see the program run generations until 50 have passed or the society is stable. You can also click Randomize Cells in order to randomly make cells alive.

The Game of Life was invented by John H Conway to simulate the death and brith of cells in a society. The following rules govern death/birth of these cells from one generation to the next.

A dead cell:

• becomes alive if it has exactly three alive neighbors
• stays dead otherwise

A live cell:

• remains alive if it has two or three live neighbors
• dies from overcrowding if it has more than three
• dies from isolation if it has less than two