Life Maker is a cellular automata program for color Macs. Cellular
automata (CA) can be thought of as mini-universes. The universe starts
at some initial state and evolves according to a simple local rule.
Conway's Game of Life is by far the best known CA. Lifemaker includes
Conway's Life along with sixteen other rules. Unlike most Life
programs LifeMaker uses color, allows you to change the size of the
"universe", and lets you create your own rules.

Basics of CA

A cellular automata consists of a bunch of cells and a rule
determining the evolution of the system. The cells typically exist in
one or two dimensions. Each cell has an associated state. The number
of possible states is finite and usually quite small. In LifeMaker the
cells are arranged in two dimensions and there are a maximum of four
states with each state having its own color.

The rule uses the state of a cell and it's neighbors to find the cells
new state. The rule is applied to each cell simultaneously so that the
cells change all at once. The neighborhood of a cell can be any finite
collection of nearby cells. For 2D CA the most command neighborhoods
are the Moore (the eight immediately adjacent cells) and the Von
Neumann (the four cells to the north, south, east and west)

For more information check out:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_automaton>

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k

Requires 32 Bit QuickDraw and runs fastest with the monitor set to 256
colors.

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