Paul Coyle

Illustrations & Software Mostly

Conway's Game of Life

Rule Set
Colouring

About

Wikipedia summarizes it best:
Conway's Game of Life is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. The game is a zero-player game, meaning that its evolution is determined by its initial state, requiring no further input. One interacts with the Game of Life by creating an initial configuration and observing how it evolves.
I originally wrote this implementation in 2016 for a monthly programming competition at work. It is still basically the same but updated with modern JavaScript, and a different UI.

Technical Details

This implementation uses WebGL storing the game state in a texture and using a compute fragment shader to calculate the next state. This results in a very fast and efficient implementation