Game of life fractal graphics

An easy and fast way to obtain fractal graphics quite similar to game of life images is to perform processing at the perimeter of the image only:

game of life fractal graphics

In contrast to early versions of the game, which advocate four generations for each cell, cells live forever in this variation. Also, the colour of each new cell depends on the colour, not the number of neighbouring cells.

You don't usually get something for nothing, so these are not quite as impressive as general game of life fractal graphics.

In contrast, here are some images in which cells live for a single generation only:

game of life fractal graphics

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