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A colorful Game of Life

133 pointsby azhenley3 months ago

14 comments

SynnVoid3 months ago
Nice color propagation! I enjoyed the different base shapes (triangle, hexagon, etc.). I had experimented with the hexagonal version in Three.js here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;onivers.com&#x2F;hexalife&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;onivers.com&#x2F;hexalife&#x2F;</a> tweaking the rules to explore interesting patterns.
dvh3 months ago
If you like game of life watch &quot;backwards game of life&quot; video by Alpha Phoenix, definitely my favorite video of 2024: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=g8pjrVbdafY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=g8pjrVbdafY</a>
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akkartik3 months ago
A year ago I made a version I call &quot;Chromacline&quot;. Multiple populations of different colors duke it out. My implementation runs it on computers and phones without needing a browser.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;akkartik.itch.io&#x2F;carousel&#x2F;devlog&#x2F;651711&#x2F;new-version-after-9-days" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;akkartik.itch.io&#x2F;carousel&#x2F;devlog&#x2F;651711&#x2F;new-version-...</a>
rezmason3 months ago
HN is on fire today with visual spectacle.<p>OP will you describe how color propagates through these?
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zuminator3 months ago
Am I correct in assuming this is basically a skin on top of standard Conway Life rules?
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kanavs3 months ago
This is incredibly cool! If you are looking for something to do next, try replicating the following quantum game of life and may be try different rules with quantum mechnanics: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;1010.4666" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;1010.4666</a>
akomtu3 months ago
A more entertaining would be a game of real life:<p>T&#x27; = -c, a citizen in this game of life has an amount of life T that evaporates at a more or less constant pace, and<p>T&#x27; = gT, the amount of life T grows exponentially by absorbing life from its neighbors with a force proportional to its greed g and its already accumulated weight T.
belinder3 months ago
I like how rendering positioning gives the illusion of there being more shape types than there really are, as the three triangles are the same and circle and hexagon are the same. I&#x27;m sure it&#x27;s been done before but I&#x27;ve never seen it, so nice job
JKCalhoun3 months ago
Wild. I have never seen triangular Life.
hirokio1233 months ago
Just by making it colorful, it really looks moldy—like red, yellow, blue, and green mold.
brap3 months ago
One of these days we’ll have real consciousness built purely in GoL
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noduerme3 months ago
Lovely implementation! The slow fading is a really nice touch.
import3 months ago
This as a screensaver would be really nice. Great work!
biohcacker843 months ago
Yesterday I was playing with Copilot, asking it to write a python implementation of the game of life. Something I did a long time and it took me about an hour.<p>The first several attempts it would delete it and say identical to public code. Until I finally asked it to make a unique implementation that&#x27;s not public code.<p>It took about a minute.
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