Game of Life

This is a Javascript implementation of Conway's Game of Life that displays the grid of cells using the canvas HTML5 element.

Requirements

Development happens on Google Chrom(e|ium), so expect problems in other browsers (cross browser compatibility is not my primary goal for now).

Download

git clone git://github.com/rjack/game-of-life.git
cd game-of-life/
git submodule init
git submodule update

Run

Point your browser to

/path/to/game-of-life/index.html

Since there is no working UI at this development stage, you need to open the javascript developer console (Ctrl+Shift+J in Chrome) and control the game with the following API:

GOL.init(width, height, 1, 1, [first_generation]);

// examples:
// GOL.init(800, 600, 1, 1);    // random cells
// GOL.init(800, 600, 1, 1, [1, 802, 1600, 1601, 1602]);    // glider

GOL.start();

GOL.stop();

GOL.step();