Documentation

The AFTERLIFE wiki

Everything below is written for someone who has never heard of Conway's Game of Life. Start at the top if that's you; jump straight to a section if you already know what you're looking for.

1. Getting started

   The one-minute tour of the app.

2. Life fundamentals

   The three rules, and a glossary of every term you’ll hit.

3. Specimen catalogue

   All 24 verified specimens in the drawer, with their proven periods and displacements.

4. Features

   The 8 colour lenses (default: Lineage), Acid Art (ASCII/glyph rendering), 5 themes, 10 Life-like rules, opt-in multiplayer, video export, the history ribbon, the Time Sculpture, branching, the field guide, experiments, the audio instrument, cinematic mode, and the guided tour.

5. Keyboard shortcuts

   Every binding, matching the in-app sheet exactly.

6. How it works

   The honest engineering account: the world, the history model, and why Life can’t be reverse-stepped.

7. Verification

   What was actually proven by running the engine — and what wasn’t.