A video of Conway’s Game of Life, emulated in Conway’s Game of Life, emulated in Conway’s Game of Life.
Uploaded for the tenth anniversary of the original video: - 10 years of that video receiving comments demanding nesting a level deeper, but I felt that doing that wouldn’t achieve much the original video didn’t already do. But for the anniversary I figured I’d go big.
Be aware that while the original video was 100% legitimate, in that I actually simulated that pattern in a Life simulator and turned the result into a video, the same is not true for this one. It would not be possible to run this simulation on any computer on Earth, at this level of nesting. Instead, each meta-cell in the grid has been simulated separately, and the results are stitched together using video-editing tricks. It should still be a mostly-accurate representation of what would happen if you somehow managed to do this for real, but the editing tricks were necessary for the video to actually be made. Sorry if that ruins the magic for you at all.
The Life pattern is the OTCA Metapixel. I didn’t come up with the pattern, it was designed by Brice Due in 2005: - for more information, see
The life simulator used is Golly - which has a built-in script to generate these metapixel grids (select a pattern, and run ““).
I then used a bunch of code to generate the images from Golly and then render the video, which can all be found at
The soundtrack was mostly just built by me going to the YouTube audio library, searching for “Ambient“, and picking a bunch of songs I liked and putting them in an order that I thought sounded good. The tracks included are:
0:00 Jingle Punks - Back of the Room Hang
1:42 Dan Henig - Sunrise in Paris
3:26 Dan Henig - Nebular Focus
5:26 DivKid - Icelandic Arpeggios
8:16 Astron - Growing Space
11:16 TrackTribe - Fog Mist
13:54 I Think I Can Help You - The Temple of The Mind
16:06 Reed Mathis - Somnia I
19:05 I Think I Can Help You - The Six Realms
21:10 Emmit Fenn - Creep
23:00 Futuremono - Moonrise
25:33 I Think I Can Help You - The Guardian of The Threshold
28:22 Asher Fulero - Elegy
31:04 The Tides - Dream Escape
34:17 Patrick Patrikios - Voices
36:48 Corbyn Kites - Instant Crush
38:48 The Tides - Ammil
41:41 Asher Fulero - Wind Riders
43:55 NoMBe - Interplanetary Alignment
45:40 Benjamin Martins - Vitality
49:04 Patrick Patrikios - Away
51:39 Dan Henig - Eternal Garden
53:54 Corbyn Kites - Orbit
55:39 Futuremono - Stillness
58:21 Jingle Punks - Back of the Room Hang
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