I may be misreading it, but doesn't the GoL as commonly understood also depend on diagonal neighbors (i.e. 8 direct neighbors)? In that case the rule space woul

I may be misreading it, but doesn't the GoL as commonly understood also depend on diagonal neighbors (i.e. 8 direct neighbors)? In that case the rule space would explode beyond the 32 bit integer one. (to a 256 bit one)