While we're speaking about obfuscated game of life implementations, try this one in C. It draws on an X11 root window, no Xlib required. http://www.ioccc.org/1

While we're speaking about obfuscated game of life implementations, try this one in C. It draws on an X11 root window, no Xlib required. http://www.ioccc.org/1991/davidguy.c http://www.ioccc.org/1991/davidguy.c