Conway's Game of Life in Just a Few Lines with Python's Scientific Stack

Awhile back, I came across a video from one of my favorite channels, Numberphile, on Conway’s Game of Life. Turns out, it’s not a game you can actually “play,” beyond setting the initial state of a simulation that progresses via a set of very simple rules. Devised by the British mathematician John Conway in 1970, the game is composed of a grid of cells, each of which can be alive or dead....

May 3, 2022 · 9 min · 1708 words · Will Duke