Cellular Containment — Conway's Game of Life

Fig. 1 — Culture Dish, ⌀140 cells · click or drag to inoculate

Observation Lighting

Culture Status

Sterile

New growth Dormant colony

Generation: 0
Population: 0

Containment Controls

Mutation Protocol

Growth Rate 8 gen/s

Specimen Library

Grid wraps at the dish rim (toroidal boundary). Culture is classified Active while population is changing, Stable once it plateaus, and Sterile at total die‑off. Cell color and size track how many cycles each cell has survived unbroken — colonies swell as they mature, from fresh growth to dormant colony. Each colony also takes on one of 20 irregular silhouettes, redrawn at random every time it's born. Switching Mutation Protocol rewrites the birth/survival rules mid‑culture, without resetting the dish.