Game of Life running on Penrose tiles: https://boingboing.net/2020/12/29/game-of-life-running-on-penrose-tiles.html

With links to an NYT feature of "short reflections from big thinkers on why Conway's famous cellular-automata gewgaw remains so fascinating", https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/science/math-conway-game-of-life.html

From which I found Kjetil Golid's generative-art "crosshatch automata", https://generated.space/sketch/crosshatch-automata/