The lifehashes project uses individual Conway's "Game of Life"-patterns as game tokens. Their deterministic, yet essentially unpredictable evolution makes them ideal seeds for generated randomness, such as this visualizer here. But there is more to it!

We explore patterns on restricted spaces (small grids with toroidal geometry) and specifically look for very long-lived patterns, i.e., high unique generational counts. Moreover, we calculate cryptographic hash values from the patterns' configurations to determine some of their characteristics, e.g., their intrinsic colour. In our context, we call these patterns "Conway Glyphs" (or "Glyphs" for short).

Apart from that, we have continuous computational challenges, e.g., find the longest-lived pattern for a specific initial density (➔ Sparse-Dense Challenge), or a pattern whose hash value contains today's date (➔ Daily Challenge). We can even let Glyphs compete against each other (➔ Gridwar)!

Our flagship product is the "Hashwar" engine which enables us to let individual Glyphs compete against each other in a weekly series of tournaments, e-sport style (➔ Weekly Series).

If you are interested in mathematical puzzles or optimization problems (or just like little games that can be played in the background), join us and mine your own patterns by registering an ad-free, spam-free, scam-free account with us: ➔ lifehashes.net/login. Watch this explanatory video to walk you through the mechanics and the many options that you have: ➔ Explanatory Video.