Conway's Game of Life
Conway's Game of Life Today's #30DayMapChallenge is Cell . For this challenge I've created an interactive version of Conway's Game of Life that turns the entire globe into a dynamic cellular automaton. Conway’s Game of Life is a mathematical simulation created by British mathematician John Conway in 1970. It’s not a game in the traditional sense - there’s no winning or losing - but a set of rules that determine how cells live, die, or are born on a grid: Any live cell with 2 or 3 live neighbors survives. Any dead cell with exactly 3 live neighbors becomes alive. All other cells die or remain dead. Despite these simple rules, the system can generate incredibly complex and beautiful patterns over time. It’s a fascinating way to explore emergent behavior and see how local interactions lead to global patterns. Unlike most implementations, our map projects Conway’s Game of Life onto a global 0.5° x 0.5° grid, where each cell represents a small area of the Earth. The gri...
