Cellular automata games you can play right now
Dozens of cellular automata games, each running live on its creator's own site: all of them playable in your browser with nothing to install. Press a card to play one on its own page, or start the cruise to ride through them one after another.
A cellular automaton is a grid of cells that each look at their neighbours and follow the same simple rule, step after step. From that come gliders, spreading sand, crystals and patterns that seem alive. This stop collects the ones you can watch, seed and poke.
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morphogen
A studio of generative and artificial-life systems, in one page. Seedable. Tunable. Shareable. No build step, no dependencies, no network…
eco
A tiny browser game about echolocation, written in vanilla JavaScript — no dependencies, no build step. Play it in your browser You are a…
falling sand
A browser falling-sand toy with chemistry reactions, bridge stress tests, and little walkers. Drag to draw; pick Person to drop walkers…
game of life
A 120 × 80 grid drawn on a canvas that stays sharp on high-DPI screens. The edges either wrap around (a torus) or act as walls. Draw or…
generative art gallery
An interactive gallery of generative art algorithms, drawn in real time in your browser with p5.js. Flow fields, fractals, cellular…
GliderLab
Glider Lab is an interactive playground built in vanilla JavaScript for exploring cellular automata, emergent behaviors, and historic…
flux
Conway's Game of Life, tinted by exchange rates. A circuit-board colony of cells that is meant to speed up when currencies move. Live demo…
conway game of life
Status: v2.0. Four experiments, a report, a policy brief and an interactive web version. Read: Report (中文) · Policy brief (中文) How do local…
game of life
An interactive, Matrix-styled Conway's Game of Life: click cells to seed a pattern, randomize, start, pause and control the speed, with an…
orbium
Lenia in the browser. Lenia is a cellular automaton with smooth states, smooth neighbourhoods and smooth time, and under the right rule it…
sandglass
A falling-sand physics sandbox that runs in the browser. Pour, burn, melt, mix, wire up and blow up 246 elements, then rewind time and try…
AlienLifeEngine
A world where every organism that can see thinks with an evolved neural brain — and half of that mind is not its own. Nothing is taught…
moonsbox
A falling sand game written in C++ with SDL2. Inspired by established falling sand games, moonsbox lets you experiment with different…
game of life
The standard B3/S23 cellular automata build on a toroidal array
Cellular Automata Playground
A cellular automaton is a grid of cells, each of which has a state (such as alive/dead). To get the next "generation" of a cellular…
canvaslife
A JavaScript and HTML5 implementation of Conway's Game of Life.
gol webapp
User-interactive JavaScript web app of Conway's Game of Life. Play with the web app at Use the Previous Step and Next Step buttons, or left…
life
Mouse - click/click&move to make cells live or dead WASD keys - camera movement +/- keys - camera scaling E/Q keys - increasing/decreasing…
automaton
Rock-Paper-Scissors cellular automaton using JavaScript and HTML5 canvas. Generation must be restarted to apply settings marked with \*…
Conways GameOfLife
Conway's Game of Life is a cellular automaton devised by mathematician John Conway. This implementation uses JavaScript to create an…
wireworld
Online simulator for Wireworld, a Turing-complete cellular automaton particularly suited to simulating transistors and circuits.
Conways3DGameOfLife THREEjs
A 3D implementation of Conways Game of Life
gol
Game Of Life simulation in JavaScript This is me trying to make a game of life simulator in JavaScript enjoy :-)
coupled logistics playground
25,600 chaotic agents. One rule. Endless structure. A browser-based interactive simulation of a coupled logistic map on a 160×160 grid…
game of drones
drone noun \ ˈdrōn \ one that lives on the labors of others : PARASITE Game of Drones adds some aspects beyond the Prisoner's Dilemma…
FallingSand
Simple JavaScript & HTML Canvas based falling sand simulation Brush sizes, round brushes, brush interpolation.
cellular automata explorer
(WIP) An interactive web app for exploring cellular automata.
slime mold spread simulation
Simulating the spread of the Physarum polycephalum slime mold using cellular automata. Inspired by reasearch done on pattern formation…
game of life
Tom's Conway's Game of Life This is an HTML5 Canvas, CSS, JavaScript version of Conway's Game of Life. A live demonstration of this code…
plasma
"Code is not carved in stone; it is cultivated in the fertile soil of emergence." Plasma transforms your browser into a digital Petri dish…
Population game
**Comprehensive technical documentation and deep codebase architecture for Jirnyak/Population_game.** This repository contains a…
CNWGOL
Interactive browser-based Conway's Game of Life with smooth animations and cyberpunk-themed UI
quantum ish life
A small mobile-friendly browser game inspired by Conway's Game of Life, with probability states instead of simple alive/dead cells. White…
spacetime life
Conway's Game of Life with time as the third axis. Every generation is a horizontal slice, stacked upward as the simulation runs — so…
make or break
Order vs Chaos in your browser. Set the rules, start the round, and see who holds the grid. Two balls bounce around a grid of bricks. The…
bitrot
A 1-bit cellular-automaton arcade game about rescuing Rare Friends from a decaying archive. Built for the Rare Friends Vibeathon (20–30…
sandpainter
A falling-sand painting toy. Four spigots pour from the top, and you paint into the mix: sand, water, oil, lava, ice, plants, acid…
necrotris
Tetris, except what you stack is alive. Play it — one HTML file, no build, no dependencies, no network. Save it and it still works. Every…
falling sand
A falling-sand playground in a single HTML file. Draw sand, water, fire, lava, oil, acid, plants and more, and watch them react to each…
conways game of life
An interactive Game of Life built to be looked at as much as played with. One self-contained HTML file — no build step, no dependencies, no…
game of life
A dependency-free HTML/JS implementation on a toroidal world: the grid fills the screen width, and anything that leaves one edge reappears…
game of life
An interactive, dependency-free implementation of Conway's Game of Life in the browser. The project turns the classic cellular automaton…
Fun With Math
A collection of original interactive mathematical experiments and essays—all running live in your browser with no installation required…
life battle
Conway's Game of Life with multiple species (colors) competing on the same grid. Watch gliders, spaceships and puffer trains fight for…
game of society
Write local rules. Watch societies emerge. Game of Society is a browser-based programmable cellular automaton. Give cells properties such…
snowflake grower
Humidity, frost, and six arms: grow snow crystals live on a hexagonal grid, with Clifford Reiter's cellular automaton. Set the weather and…
cell lab
Eight interactive simulations where every individual only looks at its neighbors. Each has just a few lines of rules, yet segregation…
cellularAutomata
A cellular automaton (pl. cellular automata, abbrev. CA) is a discrete model studied in computer science, mathematics, physics, complexity…
Cellular Asciimata
An interactive exploration of cellular automata rendered as dynamic ASCII characters. This project bridges computational aesthetics with…
HexLife
A high-performance laboratory for cellular automata on a hexagonal grid. Design rules, paint and preserve patterns, compare nine worlds…
sediment
A small falling-sand world that remembers what you do to it. Sand slumps, water finds its level, stone wears away where the pond touches…
Sand and Ink
something of your own to make: the AI steps aside completely, the brush gets much finer (smaller ink dots), and the ink spreads far less…
Maze of Life Generative Art
A seed-based generative system for cellular-automata compositions. A reproducible catalogue of computational life studies. Maze of Life is…
life3d
3D Game of Life, but the cells have weight. All done by Claude Opus 5.5: the simulation, the physics tuning, the rendering, the UI and the…
ChaotiColor Generative Art
A seed-based generative system for cellular automata patterns. A catalogue of computational textile compositions for fashion, textile and…
falling sand
An entire falling-sand physics playground in one HTML file. No build. No dependencies. No framework. Save index.html, double-click it, and…
tiny rule atlas
How much can eight bits of law make? A browsable, reproducible atlas of elementary cellular automata: **256 rules × 8 starting patterns × 2…
local rules
An interactive essay on cellular automata — six universes built from a single rule, ending in a neural network that grows a creature from…
petri mold
Мини-игра-арт-объект: чёрно-белая пиксельная чашка Петри, в которой растёт плесень. Ставишь кликами до 8 спор внутри чашки, жмёшь GROW…
- museum of emergence A living museum of self-organising systems. Eight rooms, each a real-time implementation of a published model in which simple local rules…
plotterblaetter
Vier interaktive Blätter über Struktur, die aus lokalen Regeln fällt. Je eine self-contained HTML-Datei: kein Build, kein Paketmanager…
pattern clash
A competitive, browser-based strategy game based on Conway's Game of Life. Two players buy pattern cards, place them on a shared grid, and…
Cellular Automata
A web page for demonstrate game of life (Cellular Automata)
OpenCA
OpenCA is an open-source simulator for generation-based 2D cellular automata. There is no theoretical limit to the size of the model it can…
langton loops
Langton's Loops implemented in JavaScript using a canvas.
gameoflife
A javascript/html/css implementation of Conway's Game of Life (
Lenia
Lenia is a 2D cellular automata with continuous space, time and states. It produces a huge variety of interesting life forms. There are…
NeuralCellularAutomata
GPU-accelerated, fully parameterized neural cellular automata implemented on pure JavaScript using GPU.js. If you know Conway's Game of…
ECAMS.js
This is a small web application written in JavaScript for generating line-based images of Elementary Cellular Automata using Marching…
cellular automata
Immigration game (Conway's game of life with 3 colors). Quad-Life (Conway's game of life with 5 colors).
game of life 3d
Conway's Game of Life in 3D
sandpile
This is a simulation of abelian sandpiles on hexagonal grid. If you want to read some cool stuff about it, start on wiki. The simulation is…
nca wildfire sim
A small browser playground for neural cellular automata. The simulation is a grid of cells. Each cell stores a short vector: fuel, heat…
BML Traffic Model
The Biham–Middleton–Levine traffic model is a cellular automaton that represents a flow of traffic. The concept is simple: Pixels represent…
cellular automata
Generats cellular automata depending on wolfram rule
elementaryCA
elementary cellular automata browser viewer
life
Tool for exploring life-like cellular automaton rules
Arcade of Life
A browser-based arcade game collection powered by Conway's Game of Life — and 50+ other cellular automaton rulesets. Draw defensive…
falling sand game
Play free online 2D physics particle sandbox simulator in browser. Real-time fluid dynamics, powders, chemical reactions, thermodynamics…
catch the color toa
A game using the Cellular Automata to generate rewards and obstacles developed using p5.js for a Theory of Automata course
turing pattern generator
Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion system: spots, stripes, mazes from two parameters. Try it live · 🌍 EN · 🌏 ZH. Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion…
game of life studio
A polished web-based studio for Conway's Game of Life and related cellular automata. Infinite sparse grid, pattern library, custom…
Game of Life Generative Art
A cellular automaton study for textile and surface design. A reproducible catalogue of computational compositions. Game of Life is a…
vivarium
Vivarium is a TypeScript library that aims to provide a simple yet expressive way of creating your own cellular automata and run…
mozzacella automato salad
Complex System Simulation 2016, University of Amsterdam. Research in random number generators based on cellular automata.
life like automata
Interactive visualization of life-like cellular automata.
Questions about cellular automata
What is a cellular automaton?
A model where space is a grid, each cell has a state such as alive or dead, and a rule decides its next state from the cells around it. Run it and complex behaviour grows out of almost nothing.
Is this the same as the Game of Life?
The Game of Life is the most famous one, and it has its own hub here. This stop is wider: falling-sand toys, Langton's ant, smooth continuous rules and other variants.
How do I interact with one?
Usually by drawing cells with the mouse or a finger, then pressing play, pause or step. Many let you change the rule or the speed and start again from a random grid.