Game of Life in 3D

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Cells live in a cube and count all 26 neighbors that touch them at a face, an edge or a corner.

Generation0

Population0

Population by generation

Speed 8 gen/s

Rule

B lists the neighbor counts that create a cell and S the counts that keep one alive, out of 26. Write ranges like S4-5 and put commas between numbers above 9. Bays’s four-digit form, like 4555, works too.

Start from

Under both of Bays’s rules, most random soups burn out or freeze into a few still lifes within about 100 generations.

World

Wrap edges

With wrapping on, anything that leaves one face comes back through the opposite face.

View

White stones for newborn cells Cube outline

Keys

Space: Play or pause
N: Step one generation
R C: Reset to generation 0, clear
S: New random soup
T: Switch between 3D rules and Time stack
P V: Spin on or off, reset the view

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