erikbjare/gameoflife

Just another Game of Life clone using HTML5's <canvas> and JavaScript

Game of Life

Just another Game of Life clone

This project is brought to you by:

Math, some afternoons you should probably have studied it instead of coding

##Usage Just open this link in your favorite browser, preferably one with a blazing fast JavaScript engine like Chrome's V8 or Firefox's SpiderMonkey. Parameters are GET attributes.

###Parameters

• spawnrate - Specifies the probability of a cell being alive upon initialization (decimal in range 0.0-1.0)
• gridSize - Number of cells horizontally and vertically
• cellSize - Height and width of each cell in pixels
• updateInterval - How many milliseconds to wait before the grid will attempt to update
• undead - A special mode where dead cells act just like alive cells (i.e., can come alive when it has 2-3 neighbors)

##Feel like contributing? Just submit your changes by making a pull requests, they are always welcome!

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Erik Bjäreholt [email protected]

gameoflife's Issues

Implement rule switching and alternative rules

• Example alternative rule: HighLife

Edge cells frozen in initial state

This was a side-effect of wanting to make things simple early on, now it's kind of annoying so it should probably get fixed (or allow the user to enable/disable it)

Implement loading & saving interface

• Load & save from file
• Load & save from local store

Reset does not clear drawn cells

Slow as hell, should probably be rewritten with WebCL

Perhaps I should just rewrite everything, if I ever feel like it.
AngularJS would also be nice for a better GUI and more settings.

Start writing in ES6+ with babeljs

Implement computationally expensive parts with asm.js

Implement user interface

• Pause/Resume button
• Specify random seed
• Set speed (and monitor actual speed)
• and more...

Pause when window is unfocused