Game of Life (GOL) is well known. I will not try to describe it myself. More details here: https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life
A Conway GOL Torus is a variation of GOL where the board wraps around (ie the number of cells are finite). See more here: https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Torus
For any initial configuration, every time we compute the new state of the board we say that one generation has passed.
This variation of the Game ends when the board gets into a state that we have seen before. This can happen if we reach a stable configuration (no more updates take place) or when we enter a cycle (an oscillator - https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Oscillator - is an example of this. Also be aware that the number of states for a cycles can be greater than 1 - sometimes a lot bigger than 1. One example could be a board that only contains one glider - https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Glider - because the board is a torus the glider will eventually wrap around and we will get the same state).
For torus board of size 32x32: What is the maximum number of generations we can get before the game ends? (i.e. board enters a stable state)