[HN Gopher] Show HN: Conway's Game of Life, but with a gallery o...
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Show HN: Conway's Game of Life, but with a gallery of other peoples
patterns
This is my spin on Conway's Game of Life. I have added the ability
to create an account, save grids that you have discovered, and
browse the gallery of grids saved by other people and replay them.
This project has served as a sandbox for me to practice various
aspects of developing a comprehensive web application from scratch.
This was my first time developing a full scale web app with
[almost] all the features you would expect. I know it is nowhere
near perfect in its current state, but I feel it has reached a
point of diminishing returns, and therefore my time is better spent
focussing on other projects with more potential. I may continue to
develop this project further in the future just for fun.
Author : Dave_Bruwer
Score : 30 points
Date : 2024-01-12 08:12 UTC (14 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (game-of-life-f262d.web.app)
(TXT) w3m dump (game-of-life-f262d.web.app)
| Dave_Bruwer wrote:
| The default view starts with a randomly generated grid. If you
| want a blank grid, just click on the "shuffle" button at the
| bottom to turn off the random grid.
| davidivadavid wrote:
| Might benefit from a stand-alone reset button, looked for that
| feature immediately and couldn't figure it out.
| epiccoleman wrote:
| One the topic of Game of Life, this is one of the coolest things
| I've ever seen:
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| https://oimo.io/works/life/
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| The blog post that explains it is truly mind-blowing stuff.
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| https://blog.oimo.io/2023/04/10/life-universe-en/
| therein wrote:
| > https://oimo.io/works/life/
|
| Okay, this is not far off from a DMT breakthrough conceptually.
| A little hard to explain but consider normally you are looking
| at a fractal very closely and thinking that's all that matters
| and everything there is to exist. You don't normally realize
| how closely you are shoving your face into that fractal but
| then you move your head a little further and then realize you
| forgot all of that existed.
| JackFr wrote:
| Simulation hypothesis is true!!!
| digging wrote:
| One thing I wish I had realized: clicking "save grid" sets the
| _current configuration_ as the seed state, such that clicking
| reset will only take you back to the grid as it was the moment
| you tried to save, and the original configuration is lost. This
| is true even if you don 't actually save.
|
| A really nice QOL feature would be click-dragging to draw
| lines/curves.
|
| Anyway I'm finding this quote fun. Many CGOL doodad apps that I
| see don't actually allow configuration of a seed state, but have
| one preconfigured or randomly generated; I found them incredibly
| boring (to be fair, they were probably made for reasons other
| than actually playing the GOL). It wasn't until recently when I
| did more in-depth reading about what CGOL actually is that I
| realized that the entire point and the fun of it is
| inventing/discovering initial configurations that lead to certain
| outcomes. And here comes an app that lets me save them and find
| inspiration from others. Nice work!
| vax425 wrote:
| I love it! I'm also pretty excited about Game Of Life. I made
| this: https://digitalhorology.etsy.com/listing/1644589175
| daemonk wrote:
| I wrote this one a long while back with react and d3.js:
| https://damiankao.github.io/life/
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