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Following is the gnuplot code used to create the slides for this animation
set terminal pngcairo transparent enhanced font “arial,10” fontscale 1.0 size 700, 400
unset key
unset border
unset tics
set dummy u, v
circles=60
rings=30
set parametric
set isosamples circles, rings
set hidden3d back offset 1 trianglepattern 3 undefined 1 altdiagonal bentover
set urange [ -pi : pi ] noreverse nowriteback
set vrange [ -pi : pi ] noreverse nowriteback
do for [i=1:360/circles] {
set view 25, i, 1, 1
set output sprintf(‘game-of-life-torus.%03.0f.png’, i)
splot cos(u)+.5*cos(u)*cos(v),sin(u)+.5*sin(u)*cos(v),.5*sin(v) with lines
}