game of life

this work is built on Conway's Game of Life — a cellular automaton where each cell lives or dies according to its neighbors. simple rules unfolding into unstable structures. the grid breathes on its own.

dying cells leave a trace. color accumulates where life once was, slowly shifting between two complementary hues — an oscillation too slow to perceive directly, visible only over time. the living remain white, restless, flickering.

macrophages move through the field. autonomous agents, they hunt the living clusters, consume them, clear a path. they are not random — they seek density, move toward life, erase it. the system feeds on itself.

what remains is a landscape of entropy and memory: the color record of everything that has lived and been consumed. order eating order, leaving color behind.

inspired by a conversation with Jérémie about Conway.
for ID.

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