Conway's Game of Life, animated in your terminal.
Gosper glider gun
go run .Or build a binary with go build -o life . and run ./life.
The board starts on a random soup and evolves on its own. Press space to play
or pause, and n to advance one generation while paused. Press r for a fresh
random board or g to load a Gosper glider gun. Press c to clear the board.
Use + and - to change the speed, and q to quit.
The board wraps at the edges, so patterns that run off one side reappear on the other. Each character cell stacks two board cells with half-block glyphs, which keeps the cells roughly square.
Licensed under the MIT License (see LICENSE). Contributions are welcome; see CONTRIBUTING.md.
If you use this project, please cite it. A machine-readable CITATION.cff is included; expand below for a BibTeX entry.
BibTeX
@software{Vulpes_life_2026,
author = {Vulpes, Aesthetic},
title = {life},
year = {2026},
month = jul,
version = {0.1.0},
url = {https://github.com/tui-apps/life}
}Part of the tui-apps collection
Six small, single-purpose terminal apps.
| App | What it does |
|---|---|
| calc | live calculator |
| algebra-visual | function grapher |
| classical-ciphers | cipher encoder and decoder |
| crypto-charts | crypto price charts |
| totp | TOTP authenticator |
| life | Conway's Game of Life (this repo) |