tried something a bit unusual with this one. I haven't seen any mention of people trying this idea though it seems like such a straightforward idea that I'm sure it's been done before: I introduced the idea of rules are active only on even or odd clock ticks. so this isn't quite Conway's Life, but the following ruleset:
birth rule: 3 neighbors
survivor rule: 2 neighbors, or 3 neighbors on even clock ticks, or 4 neighbors on odd clock ticks
as you can see it settles down more rapidly than Conway's Life, but now there's also a couple new "spaceships".
this is implemented in Python using PyGame for drawing and imageio to generate the animated GIF. it's definitely laggard in comparison to C / SDL2 programming but I guess it's maybe a bit less painful...maybe. kinda.
~Chara of Pnictogen
