Hierarchical Life Rule Search

Evolving rules whose individual cells resist repetition and compression
Self-checking…

Evolution

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Generation
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Best score
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Median
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Rules tested
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Rules / sec
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Workers
Ready. Conway is the first member of the initial population.

Champion replay

Leaderboard

Rule inspector

For each current state, the next state is looked up independently by lateral neighbors (0–8), parent state (0–1), and living children (0–4). Click cells to edit the selected rule.

Editing a rule immediately updates its replay.

Interestingness metric

After burn-in, deterministic sample cells are recorded through time. The score rewards hard-to-compress Lempel–Ziv histories, changing cells, balanced density, and low short-lag autocorrelation. Exact repeated global states receive a severe penalty.

Complexity
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Non-periodic
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Active cells
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Density
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No repeats
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