# Anima: Simple rules, complex life

> Conway's Game of Life (B3/S23, toroidal) plus the 256 elementary 1-D rules as a space-time diagram. 12 tests against the canon - Rule 90 = left XOR right, the glider's period and travel.

Anima is an interactive cellular-automata sandbox running both Conway's Game of Life on a toroidal grid and all 256 elementary one-dimensional rules rendered as space-time diagrams. The signature idea is that strikingly complex behaviour emerges from tiny local rules, verified against the canon - Rule 90 equals left XOR right, and the glider's known period and travel. It is a from-scratch, dependency-light build you can download and run locally.

## About the app

Cellular automata

## What to take away

- Conway's Game of Life (B3/S23, toroidal) plus the 256 elementary 1-D rules as a space-time diagram. 12 tests against the canon - Rule 90 = left XOR right, the glider's period and travel.
- Download: Anima (ZIP)

## Tags

Free software, Anima

## Read the full write-up

/downloads/anima.zip

## We build this for clients

https://dfieldsolutions.com/en/services/full-stack

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