Life & Evolution Worlds — Topoboardgame

Mode

Usage mode

Two-player mode

Challenge goal

Active player

Species

Blocks per side

Pattern Library

Pattern

Initial Pattern

Connection

Disconnected

Local board only. Switch to Online to use matchmaking, room codes, or shared links.

Advanced / Research Settings

Board geometry

Topology
Boundary
Recommended neighborhood

Lattice

Dimension

Rule preset

Custom Rule Designer

Birth counts

Survival counts

Rule B3/S23

Use counts from the current neighborhood. Commas, spaces, ranges, or compact digits are accepted.

Research Initial Conditions

Pattern Category

Initial Pattern

Radius Width Angle Density Species Noise Seed Boundary roughness

Defect Layer

Lattice-Breaking Defects Show Defect Overlay

Defect generator

Defect layer is inactive.

Neighborhood

Neighborhood Laboratory

Radius

Metric

Speed

Modifiers available on every Life board

Birth noise

Death noise

Environment noise

Rule noise

Topology defect noise

Mutation

Max age

Aging death rate

Young birth bonus

Old age penalty

Max generations

Pattern JSON

simulation

Seed cells and start evolution.

Detected structures chaotic / not classified

Info

For players: This mode turns simple local rules into survival, invasion, collapse, and pattern-building challenges.

Research

For researchers: This mode is a playable cellular-automaton model for studying how topology, locality, noise, age structure, and competition affect emergent dynamics.

Research Observables

Live system readout

Status: running

Player A / Blue0

Player B / Red0

Scoreliving + territory + stability + diversity - penalties

Research help

Use this view to measure how a rule changes when topology, lattice, neighborhood, noise, age, mutation, and random seed are held or varied.

Phase scans and benchmark runs use a background Worker when available, with a safe small fallback if Workers are blocked.

Generation0

Population N(t)0

Density ρ(t)0

Population growth rate0

Birth rate0

Death rate0

Species fractions—

Mean age0

Age distribution—

Cluster count0

Largest cluster0

Component size distribution—

Domain Count0

Interface Length0

Defect Count0

Crack Length0

Dislocation Cores0

Entropy0

Spatial correlation0

Center of mass—

Radius of activity0

Bounding box area/volume—

Extinction time—

Survival time0

Oscillation—

Recurrence hash period estimate—

Front velocity0

Compression ratio proxy0

Performance benchmark Run a small benchmark for gen/s.

Detected structureschaotic / not classified

Rule-space scan

Phase Diagram Scanner

Ready for a small safe scan.

Fixed geometry Fixed lattice Fixed neighborhood Board size Seed density Random seeds per rule Generations per run Birth subsets Survival subsets

Defaults scan a small 4x4 subset of 2D Life-like B/S rules. Use semicolons to add more subsets carefully.

extinction stable/frozen oscillator growing chaotic/active

Same seed, different spaces

Topology Compare

Choose 2-4 geometries and run a synchronized comparison.

Uses the current rule preset, lattice, neighborhood, and modifiers without changing the main board.

Board size Seed density Initial random seed Generations per run

Local reproducibility

Experiment Notebook

Saved only in this browser.

Save the current Life configuration, seed, modifiers, and final metrics locally without login.

Experiment title Saved experiments