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+# Conway's Game of Life
+
+An implementation of Conway's Game of Life in Haskell using
+comonads and functional reactive programming.
+
+This package consists of two parts:
+
+- A library that can be used to simulate Conway's Game of Life on an arbitrary space
+  using arbitrary rules. It is based on a comonad transformer stack.
+
+- An executable that uses [Yampa](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/Yampa) and
+  [Gloss](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/gloss-1.13.0.1) to graphically display
+  a 100x100 simulation of Conway's Game of Life. The simulation can be controlled by the keys:
+  
+  `Space` – Play/Pause
+  
+  `-` – Slow down the tick rate
+
+  `+` (hold shift) – Speed up the tick rate
+
+This package is a work in progress and may not be fully functional.