The Game of Life makes it easy to see how the most simple rules can generate a huge amount of unexpected and beautiful results.
First invented in 1970 by British mathematician John Horton Conway, it has had a great influence on the development of various branches of mathematics and computer science. Formed in it patterns replicate very exactly many real-world processes: thermal conductivity, diffusion, periodical chemical reactions, transmission of neural impulses, formation and evolution of spiral galaxies, and much more - it demonstrates the existence of a very simple basic laws of nature.