Conway's Game of Life Recursively Defined

Conway's Game of Life within Conway's Game of Life.

The pattern that emulates a single life cell is called “unit life cell”. First discovered in 1996 by David Bell http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/David_Bell

there are several different constructions of unit life cell. Others are:

• http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/P5760_unit_Life_cell
• http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Deep_cell
• http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/OTCA_metapixel

The one in the video is the OCTA metapixel. It is the only one so far that also VISUALLY emulate Game of Life

Here is another vid:

the software used is “Golly”. See: Great Software for Cellular Automata .