Monitoring population size through generations in Conway's Game of Life was the premise of my state science fair project. I ended up going further and changing

Monitoring population size through generations in Conway's Game of Life was the premise of my state science fair project. I ended up going further and changing the rule parameters to see which were the most optimal ones, but if you want to see the population vs. generation graphs for the original rules, here they are: 12 pentominoes: http://i.imgur.com/wrO3o.png http://i.imgur.com/wrO3o.png Population over 50 generations graph: http://i.imgur.com/TIRgK.png http://i.imgur.com/TIRgK.png