Saturday, July 22, 2006

Life is Life

You are probably familiar with Conway's Game of Life, one of the first computer simulations / games / screensavers ever. I am not sure if that's still true today but when I began programming, Life was something EVERYONE played with during their first stages of computer literacy.



It's nice to see that Life enthusiasts are still thriving and coming up with new algorithms that allow them to generate thousands of generations of thousands of Life cells on infinite playfield with lightning speed. This is something very different from running Life on 20x20 grid and it allows you to discover all kinds of beautiful stuff you never knew existed in Life. Download Golly multiplatform Life simulator to try it out.
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousTuesday, July 25, 2006 10:27:00 AM

    Or, you can try it online.

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  2. František FukaTuesday, July 25, 2006 7:49:00 PM

    kuruteku: That's precisely why I mentioned "gigantic patterns of thousands of cell" which cannot be handled by Java.

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  3. AnonymousWednesday, July 26, 2006 5:35:00 PM

    Your first link got http used twice

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