Have you ever heard of Conway’s Game of Life? Quetwo has created a Flex app that plays through the rules that Conway made up. What you see may look like a grid of black and white squares turning off and on but watch it play out over time and it starts to look sort of organic, almost viral. That’s life.

I’m a huge fan of stuff like that. If I were independenly wealthy I’d probably spend most of my days exploring mathematical topics such as that.

Years ago I created a one-dimensional version of the Game of Life using AS2 – oh, so slow by today’s standards.

And along those lines is a Flex app that creates a Sierpinski triangle by choosing random numbers.

Addendum:
Quasimondo – Mario Klingeman – has created a really cool version of the Game of Life using bitmaps and filters, complete with source code. Check it out.