Conway's Game Of Life

Wiki: Conway's Game of Life

Setup

npm install && npm run build

and run

Use browser-sync to host on localhost:3000

npm run browser-sync

or open/serve index.html however you want

Features

1. Game of Life's default rules, of course
2. Pause / Resume / Next Frame (Tick)
3. Presets
   1. Select pattern-presets to insert onto grid
   2. Preview what to insert onto grid
4. 'Infinite' grid (it loops back around the edges)
5. Supports window/canvas resizing
6. (TODO) grid / cell scaling (zoom / responsiveness)
7. (TODO) Gameplay (0)_(0)

Supported Patterns

• Blinker
• Glider
• Glider Gun
• Pulsar
• Switch Engine
• Eater
• Herschel
• and just a cell itself ;-)

But why?

First, I always wanted to build my own implementation of G.O.L.
Second, I just want to challenge myself a little and so I created a playground to practice some minor things