Generate "Game of Life" Video using lavfi video source

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Conway’s Game of Life, also known simply as Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970.

The following command will generate a random pattern and generate video frames for each ‘Life’ generation.

Notice that the command will generate a video file without a given input file. Read more about ‘Video Sources on FFmpeg official documentation’

ffmpeg -f lavfi -i "life=s=960x540:mold=10:r=60:ratio=0.1:death_color=#C83232:life_color=#00ff00,scale=960:540:flags=16" -c:v libx264 -crf 41 -frames:v 1800 -r 60 -t 30 life.mp4