HPC Automaton: Cellular Life

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About this app

HPC Automaton runs Conway's Game of Life and forty-six more cellular automata on your GPU — one shader pass per generation, hundreds of generations a second on a phone.

The point is that it never stops. One finger paints living cells, two fingers pan and zoom, and the world keeps evolving the whole time. Drop a glider gun into a growing colony and watch what happens.

- 47 rules: Life, HighLife, Seeds, Maze, Brian's Brain, Day & Night, the Wolfram 1D rules, and more
- Cyclic automata that organise noise into rotating spirals of colour
- Larger-than-Life rules whose random fields resolve into crawling "bugs"
- Moore, von Neumann and hexagonal neighbourhoods — hex worlds drawn properly sheared
- Build and save your own rules with birth/survival toggles or a plain B3/S23 field
- Twelve colour ramps with a full editor, plus glow and fading trails
- GIF recording and 4K poster export, saved to your gallery or shared
- A live population graph, a minimap, and a curated gallery of twenty worlds
- Presentation mode: no chrome, screen kept awake

No account and nothing to buy — every feature is unlocked from the start. Exports carry a small badge; one short ad clears the next five. Nothing leaves your device unless you send it.
A universe of cellular automata that runs at full speed while you draw on it.
Updated on
Sep 10, 2026

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  • Committed to follow the Play Families Policy

What’s new

First release.

- 47 rules including Conway's Life, cyclic automata and Larger-than-Life
- Draw, pan and zoom on a world that never stops running
- Moore, von Neumann and hexagonal neighbourhoods
- Custom rules and colour ramps, saved on your device
- GIF recording, 4K export, presentation mode