Definition
A cellular automaton (CA) is Life-like if it meets the following criteria:The array of cells of the automaton has two dimensions. Each cell of the automaton has two states The neighborhood of each cell is the Moore neighborhood; it consists of the eight adjacent cells to the one under consideration and (possibly) the cell itself. In each time step of the automaton, the new state of a cell can be expressed as a function of the number of adjacent cells that are in the alive state and of the cell's own state; that is, the rule is outer totalistic.
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