There is a description of Conway's Game of Life included in the diagram. Refer to that to learn what it is. Some presets are defined for variant rulesets. When possible, I tried to put the people who discovered each variant in the preset along with other information I found interesting (and fit in the box)

There is a description of Conway's Game of Life included in the diagram. Refer to that to learn what it is. Some presets are defined for variant rulesets. When possible, I tried to put the people who discovered each variant in the preset along with other information I found interesting (and fit in the box)

Rules of the simulation:

- When Idle, creatures will randomly move around and wiggle in place.
- Roughly every fifteen seconds (with a bit of randomness) the agents will flip from Idle to Searching.

- When Searching, creatures attempt to reach the nearest Searching or Connected creature. Once they get within five units, they will latch onto them and become Connected.

- If a Searching creature doesn't reach another creature in time, they are Dead.

- Connected creatures will move away from all linked creatures until they are twenty units away from every linked creature, after which they will disconnect from all linked creatures and become Idle.

- Cycle repeats until simulation ends or every creature is dead.