Game of Life
A generative digital artwork devoted to Conway's Game of Life, created for the lecture Gestaltungslehre at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
A digital artwork built around Conway's Game of Life, created for the lecture Gestaltungslehre at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Conway's 1970 cellular automaton runs on a grid of cells that live or die by a small set of rules. A live cell with two or three neighbours survives the next generation, and a dead cell with exactly three is brought back to life. From a random starting state the iteration spins out endlessly varied patterns. This take departs from the original on one point: cells that have already died don't disappear, they fade and shrink, leaving a faint trace of what passed through each square. The piece captures not a single generation but the history written into it.