18 Quintillion

The hexagon is the perfect shape to fill a 2d plane.

Each hex has 6 neighbours. The state of a hex is determined by the its neighbours.

6 neighbours = 6 bits = 64 possible neighbour configurations.

Each of these configurations can determine whether the hex is "on" or "off".

64 bits to be exact.

The total amount of possible rules is 2 to the power of 64 = 18,446,744,073,709,551,615.

18 Quintillion.

Will you find the best rule?

How to "play"
Click the state buttons on either side to set a new rule, or click the random rule button in the bottom right. When the center is Yellow that means the state of the neighbours will cause the hex to be "on". When the center is black the configuration of the neighbours will cause the hex to be "off".
Reset the simulation with the reset buttons or draw on the hexagon field.

Version 0.1

• Possibility to draw both "on" and "off"
• Rule can be copied and pasted as a hexadecimal string.
• 2 view modes, current state as binary or additional 3 historical states with colors.
• Random rule button
• 5 clear states

Please comment your suggestions and cool rules you find!

Here is rule no 1010101002010D00.

Rule 1011241061668 - Game of life?

NOTE: Requires compute shader capable graphics card.

ALSO NOTE: Linux version is untested. Please let me know if you find issues.