Generation0

Awake428

Sleeping0

Transport

Living cells

Paint a fate

Lives at 2, 3, 4

Death behavior

Paint a kind

Sleeps at 6

Sleep duration

Generations

3 generations asleep

002GOL

Hexagonal Slumber

Life moves onto a six-neighbor honeycomb with a rule composer for survival, permanent death, and temporary sleep.

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Hexagonal slumber rule

01Alive cells currently survive at 2, 3, 4 awake neighbors.
02Normal death currently occurs at 0, 1, 5 awake neighbors.
03Deaths at 6 awake neighbors sleep for 3 generations.
04Dead cells wake with exactly three awake neighbors.
05A sleeping cell ignores its neighbors, wakes alive, and resumes normal rules one generation later.

Neighborhood: Axial · 6 edge neighbors
Update: Synchronous generations
States: Dead / alive / sleep 3–1
Field: 60 × 70 hexagons

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Game of Life: Hexagonal Slumber

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60 × 70 · toroidal · 10.2% awake

Click and drag to draw awake cells. With the playfield focused, use arrow keys to move the editing cursor, Enter to toggle a cell, P to play or pause, and S to step.

AliveSleep · 3Sleep · 2Sleep · 1

Draw directly on the honeycomb, or reproduce a seeded field from the controls.