1. 11:25 24th Feb 2009

    Tags: programming

    Javascript Life

    This is Conway’s Game on Life implemented in pure HTML/Javascript with a little help from jQuery for the events.

    This is another idea Matt and I had - he’s working on an alternate idea at http://cribley.org.

    Some guidelines:

    • You can pause the action by hovering over the grid. That’s what that red border means.
    • All grid cells are clickable - clicking toggles life.
    • The simulation starts out with F-pentomino (sometimes called R-pentomino) which should provide an interesting display for at least 1000 generations.
    • This page uses a LOT of resources (some 4200 TD cells with event handlers). It may cause some browser issues. It’s slow in IE. In Firefox closing the window takes a long time (trying to fix this).

    Have fun! http://artlogic.nfshost.com/life/