[Ferenc Nagy]

Many thanx to everybody who have answered my questions emerged during the development of my wiki contribution, the Life game http://wiki.visual-prolog.com/index.php ... :Life_Game, from November 2015 to present.
Detailed description in progress.

[globaltechno]

is this Game play?

[Ferenc Nagy]

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1
ooooo
ooooo
ooxoo
ooooo
ooooo
 
2
ooooo
ooxoo
ooxoo
ooxoo
ooooo
 
3
ooooo
ooxoo
oxxxo
ooxoo
ooooo
 

The game has three outcomes:
1) All inhabitants die out.
2) You achieve a steady state.
3) The picture of earlier generation is repeating i.e. the film is periodic.

Fourth possibility does not exist because the grid and the number of possible states of its cells is finite.

Change the rules for birth and death, and try again:
If an empty cell has two inhabited neighbors it becomes inhabited.
If an inhabited cell has exactly 3 inhabited neigbors then the central cell becomes empty.