PatternLab vs Stone of Life

Discover the beauty of patterns. PatternLab is a creative sandbox for exploring cellular automata — simple rules that give rise to endless complexity. Inspired by Conway’s Game of Life, PatternLab lets you draw, experiment, and watch living patterns unfold in real time. Whether you’re curious about math, love puzzles, or just want to relax and watch mesmerizing shapes evolve, PatternLab makes science playful and accessible. Features: • Multiple rule sets: Conway, Seeds, Maze, Day & Night • Pre-built patterns: Glider, Blinker, Pulsar, and more • Custom drawing tools to create your own designs • Adjustable grid size and simulation speed • Color themes including high contrast & accessibility modes • Undo/redo support for fast experimentation Why you’ll love it: • Relax and watch infinite patterns evolve • Spark creativity with mathematical art • Learn about complex systems in a hands-on way PatternLab is perfect for students, creators, and anyone who enjoys interactive experiments. Dive in, play with rules, and see how small changes create surprising results.

Stone of Life is a version of Conway's Game of Life, the popular cellular automaton invented by John Conway in 1970. Explore the many different fascinating patterns and evolutions such as "guns", oscillators, and spaceships - create your own or import patterns from friends and websites. Comes with a collection of popular example patterns to get you started! Stone of Life has many beautiful background animations and useful features such as: * Import/export RLE, Plaintext and Macrocell text * Save and open RLE or Macrocell files * Variable speed * Stepwise evolution (also backwards!) * Run many simulations at the same time * A mini Life lexicon * Support for changing the accent colour of the app * Cell transition and glow effects * Support for other cellular automaton rules than B3/S23(Life) * HashLife jumps * And more!