Celeste is a very simple CA simulator originally written to run Conway's Game of Life.
You can play with the source code and implement your own rule sets (alternatives to the Game of Life) or simply try to invent
new input configurations for the existing rules that do funny stuff.
The input files are very simple and can be edited with a text editor. For each step in the simulation, an image is written to the
simulation directory. You can turn them into a movie or animated GIF file using your favourite UNIX tools. ;)
This version was inspired by Edward Martin's Game of Life website. He has a cool Java applet and the Life Lexikon, go check it out.
Celeste can also read the .cells format, btw.
Last but not least, Celeste is released under the extremely permisse WTFPL.
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