Stochastic Adaptations in Cellular Automata: Modifications to Conway's Game of Life

The study extends Conway's Game of Life with two novel modifications to enhance its simulation capabilities for population dynamics. These extensions incorporate cellular degenerative properties and energy dynamics into the classical model. The effectiveness of these enhanced models was evaluated by comparing their outputs against empirical population data from three species of penguins in Antarctica. The findings demonstrate that the proposed modifications yield a more accurate representation of living populations, capturing the complexity of real-life biological systems more effectively than the original framework.