Transport

Adjacency pause

Off

Enable adjacency pause

Skip a cell when it has exactly a selected number of adjacent living cells. Count the eight touching positions, including diagonals, regardless of the age-sum neighborhood.

Adjacency pause is off; selected counts are retained. Select any combination; keep at least one count. A match skips age sums and state rules, holding state, age and death wait unchanged. Recheck next turn. Other cells still see its unchanged age.

Resurrection

7:30

Living ratio units7

Dead ratio units30

Require living neighbor

Resurrect when living days / dead days < 7/30. Equality stays dead. At least one living neighbor is required. No dead days means no resurrection.

Survival

40–77%

Survival lower bound40%

Survival upper bound77%

Survive only above 40% and below 77% living days out of all days. Both exact boundaries propose death, subject to the optional age condition. Endpoints stay at least two percentage points apart.

Age-qualified death

Off

Require neighbors as old or older

A living cell can die only when every living neighbor is at least its age. Any younger living neighbor prevents death. Compare current living ages in the configured neighborhood; ignore dead cells. With no living neighbors, death is allowed.

The ordinary ratio must still call for death. A protected cell stays alive and ages normally; no death wait is assigned. Adjacency pause takes priority. This switch starts off and randomizers preserve it.

Death wait

2–178 turns

Enable death wait

Minimum death wait2 turns

Maximum death wait178 turns

Wait curve2

Record living/dead days at death. Less living influence means a longer wait. Wait = 2 + round up(176 × dead share^2). Higher curves shorten intermediate waits.

At death: 0:1 → 178 turns; 1:1 → 46; 1:0 → 2. Minimum stays at or below maximum. Equal bounds give a fixed wait; both zero allow immediate eligibility.

After death, block the assigned number of evaluated turns, then test the current resurrection ratio. Adjacency pause freezes this countdown. Death still follows the survival and age conditions. Edits affect future deaths; assigned waits stay fixed. Starting and painted dead cells have no wait.

Neighborhood

Neighborhood shape

Neighborhood radius2

24 neighbors, excluding self. Bounded edges omit outside positions. Each Step reads current ages before incrementing them.

Rule edits preserve the field, ages and assigned waits, then pause. State changes discard the old spell and start at day 1.

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Resurrection

Every living and dead spell leaves a weight in time. Neighbors sum their living and dead days to decide resurrection, survival and death.

Explore the collection Rules & reproducibility

Current composition

00Adjacency pause is off.
01Otherwise, sum living days L from living neighbors and dead days D from dead neighbors. Exclude self.
02Dead: resurrect if D > 0 and L × 30 < D × 7. L must also be positive.
03Alive: ordinary survival is 40% < L / (L + D) < 77%. Age-qualified death is off.
04Death records L/D and assigns 2–178 blocked turns (curve 2). Resurrection needs both an expired wait and a passing current ratio.
05Change state: start day 1. Otherwise keep state: add one day. Commit every cell together.

Try Show ages: amber dead cells are waiting. Initially dead cells and Clear have no recorded death and no wait; subsequent deaths receive their own timers.

Selected cell

Position / spell: (80, 80) · Dead, day 1
Adjacent living cells: 2 / 8 · pause disabled
Living days L: 4
Dead days D: 20
Resurrection ratio: 4 / 20 = 0.20000
Living share: 4 / 24 = 16.667% (display rounded)
Youngest living neighbor: 1 days · cell age 1
Death age condition: Off
Recorded death ratio: No death recorded in this spell
Assigned wait: None
Remaining wait: 0 turns · eligible
Ratio alone: Resurrection
Next result: Resurrection → alive, day 1
Wait after next Step: 0 turns
Previous Step: No previous Step evidence

Experiment index029 / 100

Game of Life: Resurrection

Paused · Toroidal

160 × 160 · generation 0

LivingResurrected this StepDead

Neighbors contribute their current spell ages. The ratio at death sets how long resurrection must wait.

Paint to change cells, or enable Inspect cell. Arrow keys select; Enter paints; P plays/pauses; S steps.