Comment by space_fountain

Interesting, I guess I forgot that the game of life includes edge neighbors and had no idea of the cycle time. Why isn’t it 2^8 neighbors though?. Maybe just running 2^8 simulations is the way to go? Or that’s 9 megabytes * frame size per so maybe that ends up being small enough with compression

Edit: the author has said that it’s non periodic apparently which seems like it would make this whole thing a lot harder and probably require more state