The Way of Life
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The Conway's game of life features an infinite grid of square cells which can be alive or dead. Each cell interacts with its eight neighbours following two rules:
- An empty cell that has exactly 3 neighbors is "born" into in the next generation.
- An occupied cell that has exactly 2 or 3 neighbors survives to the next generation. Otherwise, its occupant dies (of loneliness or overcrowding).
There is a one line implementation of this game in APL:
life←{ ↑1 ⍵∨.∧3 4=+/,¯1 0 1∘.⊖¯1 0 1∘.⌽⊂⍵ }
What you are seeing is a more naïve javascript implementation of conway's game of life using an HTML canvas to draw it.
This implementation features a universe that is a torus, ie. screen borders are connected and a cell that goes through the right border will reappear on the left one.