Life Universe: an infinitely recursive, fully consistent Game of Life you can explore in real time
pickover · x · 2026-09-19
An indie developer released Life Universe, letting you explore an infinitely recursive Conway's Game of Life universe.
The standout feature is consistency: zooming into a pattern runs it in real time, and it "never fails to remember where you are and where you came from" — inner and outer levels stay perfectly in sync with the rules as you scale back out. Writer Cliff Pickover amplified it as "Life Within Life: machine civilizations evolving at different scales, inside one another."
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