Why Particle Life?For one of my programming classes this semester, my task was writing a program in Python. It was only an introductory course, so it didn’t have to be anything fancy. Whenever I get assignments like this one, my choice is simple: I enjoy tinkering around with cellular automata and particle simulations.I have had an eye on Particle Life for quite a while now. The idea belongs to Jeffrey Ventrella, who called it "Clusters." As the name suggests, its simple rules result in the emer...