Utilizing Excel's turing capabilities to create Conway's 'Game of Life'

I considered making a new discussion for this but since it's a bit off the beaten path for MTC, the best audience for it is probably in this discussion (and it relates to Conway with the need to find the Moore neighborhood and do some math).

I recently created Terrainλ - a modular terrain analysis engine.  The visuals are being handled with some creative conditional formatting.

If any of this sounds interesting, please let me know here (or through a private message) and I'd be happy to provide an .xlsx to take for a spin.

Thanks for taking a look!

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Terrainλ
Return terrain analysis metrics by supplying square elevation matrices.

Metrics:
Aspect (radians), Classify, Curvature, Gradient Magnitude, Hillshade, Profile Curvature, Roughness, Slope (degrees), Slope (radians), ZTPI

=Terrainλ(DEM,cellsize,function,[azimuth],[altitude],[z_factor])