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Conway's Game of Life, introduced in 1970, became the canonical demonstration that tiny local rules can create moving, stable, and self-organizing patterns without a central controller.
This patch version keeps the model close to the textbook rule. Each cell is a patch on a torus; every staged tick counts the eight live neighbors from the previous frame, births dead cells with exactly three neighbors, and preserves live cells with two or three neighbors. The visual birth and death softness comes from style transitions rather than extra simulation states.