How do Life dynamics change when moving from 8 neighbors in 2D to 26 neighbors in 3D?
Living structures span depth as well as width and height.
Try thisToggle from central-block to random-fill with 20% density and watch 3D clusters condense.
About this model
Where it ends up
Structures form, pulse, or decay throughout the cubic volume.
Carter Bays introduced three-dimensional extensions of Conway's Life in 1987, discovering that the 4555 rule (survive with 4 or 5 living neighbors out of 26, and birth with exactly 5) supports stable oscillators, gliders, and rich 3D structures.
Living cells appear as unit cubes in an 8x8x8 volume. Drag to orbit and scroll or pinch to zoom. Each cell reads its 26 Moore neighbors before all states update together; the torus wraps across every face. The central seed is a stable six-cell block, with five living neighbors per cell.
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