Description

Life3D is an extension of Conway's Game Of Life cellular automata into three dimensions.

Applets

Life3D 300 x 300 fast pc recommended

Algorithm

The rules are essentially the same as Conway's original Game of Life just extended to a larger neighborhood. There are now 26 potential neighbors as opposed to 8 in two dimensions. A cell with fewer than 2 neighbors dies from "loneliness". A cell with more than 3 neighbors dies from "overcrowding". A new cell is born from an empty location when it has exactly 3 neighbors.

Those curious with playing with the source code will find the rules are easily modified.

Color is assigned by treating the grid cube as a subset of RGB colorspace.

Samples

Related Work

The IFSVoxel project is very similar, and in fact represents a "clean up" of much of this code.