Conway's Game of Life Website, implemented using WebGL.
This project simulates Conway's Game of Life, a popular cellular automaton, as a website. The idea was to (ab)use OpenGL's hardware parrallelization to simulate the cells faster than a browser could with javascript. The cell-board is stored as a texture2d, which is rendered to a second texture, producing the new generation of cells.
- paint cells onto the board
- specify the rules of the game
- export/import svg image
This project requires no installation.
To start the game, simply open the file called index.html, or visit the online version, in the latest Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome.
This project has been testet in Firefox 52.8.1 (64-bit) and Google Chrome 67.0.3396.87 (Official Build) (64-bit) on Linux/Debian.
The scripts should really be batched together to reduce the currently large amount of http requests.
- It may happen that drawing on the board will not have any visible effect.
There are several possible reasons for this:
- Painting with the pattern-mode 'remove' will not add any cells to the board, but only remove cells. You can change the pattern mode on the left side. Alternatively, exit and re-enter the paint mode to reset the pattern-mode.
- Painting while viewing any other cell-mode than 'life' may prevent seeing the result of your brush. You can change the cell-mode on the right side. Alternatively, exit and re-enter the paint mode to reset the cell-mode.
- When painting while in play-mode, painting a single cell will probably have not effect because it will die instantly.
- This website requires JavaScript and WebGL to do anything interesting, but a warning will appear if any of that is not available.