I realized yesterday that I had never implemented Conway’s Game of Life, which is something of a rite of passage for young computer-science students. As I opted for a more non-traditional path to the software profession, I somehow missed that fun, even though I’ve made a point of implementing other computer-sciency things like it.
Here are some links to interesting board layouts:
The basic page, which implements a glider.
A Gosper glider gun running at top speed, probably faster than your screen’s refresh rate.
A set of cells that devolves into a single spinner.
A pair of gliders which follow each other endlessly.
A large board with a long-running pattern
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