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LifeSim

Conway's Game of Life for iPhone and iPad.

Currently unavailable LifeSim isn't on the App Store at the moment, and it doesn't run on recent versions of iOS. Questions: silyevsk@gmail.com.

The app

LifeSim runs Conway's Game of Life on an infinite grid — the board never runs out, however far a pattern travels. Drag to scroll, pinch to zoom, tap a cell to turn it on or off.

Hundreds of known patterns are built in, from gliders up to the large engineered ones, and a quick-start tutorial covers the rules for anyone meeting the Game of Life for the first time. On iPad a side panel carries a map of where the live cells are, along with a log of what has been loaded.

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