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Hunting wrote: November 24th, 2020, 8:36 am OP: Have you tried INT, Symbiosis, and the like?

I have not! My knowledge of CA is very limited I’ll check those out; hopefully they will be different enough from GoL that even a high-schooler would be able to tell the difference.

Some other extensions you can try out also include the Extended Generations , BSFKL and INT rulespaces.
Note that INT rules may be harder to implement as the next state of the cell depends not only on the sum of its neighbours but also the neighbour's relative positioning to the cell.


Thank you ...

Hey, I lead a high-school programming class and GoL is our current project. Once we finish implementing the standard set if rules, I’d like to show my students some interesting variants that they could implement themselves.

I know of the color modifications, and of the changes to the BX/SY ...