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Share Your Conway's Game Of Life

Ben Lovy on April 12, 2020

Sadly, John Horton Conway has passed away. While Conway's contributions to computational mathematics over the years are numerous and eclectic, man...
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bch77

I have an implementation that I made on Shadertoy It is very playable-with in a desktop browser (read the code for extensive usage notes). It's somewhat limited in field size, however.

I am so sad and angry that COVID-19 took JHC. I remember him for various things beyond Life, including his analysis of the Rubik's cube, Sprouts, and his work with uniform polychora. He was such a shining light and will be hugely missed.

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François Best • Edited

Here's mine, with a genetic twist: cells have color genes, that are passed from their three parents. It creates a colorful battle of color factions over time, I built it while learning Rust:

genetic-life.surge.sh

Source: github.com/franky47/genetic-life/b...

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David Wickes • Edited

The greatest solution I've ever seen is written in APL.

←{                                  
    ↑1 ⍵∨.∧3 4=+/,¯1 0 1∘.⊖¯1 0 1∘.⌽⊂⍵ 
}

If you're anything like me you'll try and implement the same reasoning in a different language.

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Ben Lovy

I am utterly fascinated by APL/J/family. Just need more hours in the week...

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Ben Lovy

I just started learning Crystal this week! Definitely taking a look, thanks for sharing.

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Wilson Tovar

Crystal is amazing. I'm love with that language <3

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Roger Zanoni

Very old (7 years ago, every time I comment here I feel older :) and not very efficient:

gist.github.com/rogerzanoni/6381027

It's written in QML and if we change the import to at least QtQuickt 2.0 and world width, height to 100, it looks like this:

gameoflife

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Eugene Karataev

Here's my Life game. And the repo.

I wrote it 5 years ago when just started my path in frontend development. AngularJS, ES5, script tags, no bundlers...

RIP professor Conway.

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Gerard Klijs

I made 2d and 3d versions learning rust with web assembly. Online at gameoflife2d.gklijs.tech/ and gameoflife3d.gklijs.tech/. Code at github.com/gklijs/game-of-life.

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Kostia Palchyk

Sad news. One of many upcoming, I'm afraid.

Here is a playlist with John Conway interviews made by Numberphile channel
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwL...

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Krikchai Pongtaveewould

Just recently finished one. Check this out!
demo: krikchaip.github.io/game-of-life
source: github.com/krikchaip/game-of-life

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Ben Lovy

This is a nice, clean implementation! Thanks for sharing.

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Dinesh Kumar Gnanasekaran

I wrote Game of Life in JS. Check out the link, you can even play with it
dinesh-gdk.github.io/Game-Of-Life/

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Ben Lovy

Great implementation, thank you for sharing!

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Andrew Andersen

I wrote mine to try using OpenCL, so it uses GPU for simulation, but I didn't bother myself with proper rendering. Also, host language is Rust :)
github.com/Mr-Andersen/game-of-lif...

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