Hey Folks,

Was reading a book the other day where they mentioned the old mathematical game of Life. This game was written by a mathematician in 1970 to demonstrate that a simple set of rules can generate complex and unpredicatable results over time.

Over 20 years ago, I wrote an Apple program to run this simulation or game or whatever you want to call it. Sure enough, wondrous things happen over time if you start with interesting patterns.

Anyhow, I wrote a Life application for VFP this morning and posted it here. It's called VFPLife. You can put this in the "Bag O Tricks" category: this application does nothing useful. However, you can spend hours and hours trying new patterns and seeing how many cycles it takes to population stasis or death or ... never-ending diversity?

The penultimate nerd game.....ENJOY!