The new blogger makes the reading impossible on my device.
I had the idea of 3D life where every other cell is unused (chess-like); then every cell has 8 neighbors, but in 3D.
But it seems that life rules make this space stable. Didn't experiment with other rulesets.
A while back I made a plugin based Game of Life simulator.
I only created 3 plugins for it, but one of them was similar to the picture in the article, where each new round of evolution is placed on top of the previous level.
If you're interested, the code is up on GitHub. It should work out of the box on Linux, but I was having some problems getting the plugin shared libraries to build and load on all platforms. I think OSX works, but it might still require copying the plugin shared libraries into the .app. Don't know if it works on Windows.
I had the idea of 3D life where every other cell is unused (chess-like); then every cell has 8 neighbors, but in 3D. But it seems that life rules make this space stable. Didn't experiment with other rulesets.