And for a related rabbit hole where people actually went all the to the bottom, there's of course the full implementation of Tetris in GoL which was nerd-sniped by a CodeGolf challenge
https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/11880/build-a-w...
https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/11880/build-a-w...
I would make the case that, zoomed out far enough, nothing at all is meaningful, so you might as well make beautiful things, and this is a delightfully beautiful thing.