A three-dimensional tribute to Conway's "Game of Life"

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Any ideas about a good ruleset for 3D Life?

Maybe a 2D Life using the 3rd dimension for time would look cool - generations scrolling top to bottom.

Like an autonomous Miegakure?

Carter Bays spent some time looking for good 3D life rules - see his papers the Journal of Complex Systems.

See also: http://www.cse.sc.edu/~bays/d4d4d4/ for a Java implementation