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Home of Conway's Game of Life — pattern archive, wiki and a board for setting your own cells running.
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ConwayLife sits in Science Toys under Learn, filed as coffee break.
About this category: Simulations you can meddle with: orbits, evolution, chemistry, cellular automata. Understanding through interference rather than through reading.
Yes. ConwayLife is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use ConwayLife without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file ConwayLife as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
An explorable on how ideas and riots spread through a social network, with the contagion thresholds under your control.
A graphing calculator good enough that people make art with it — type a function and drag its parameters about.
Build a circuit and watch current move through it as coloured dots, with an oscilloscope available on any node.
A toy about synchronisation — a few hundred blinking dots that agree on a rhythm with no conductor anywhere.
Click the cookie, buy grandmas, buy portals, accidentally summon something. The game that turned incrementals into a genre.
One button, one endless right angle, one car sliding off the edge of the world. The purest possible drifting game.
Tune a car, hold the handbrake and score points for angle rather than lap times. The garage is quietly the actual game.
JavaScript demos in 140 characters. The gap between how little code there is and what appears is the whole appeal.
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