GAME OF LIFE

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Game of Life in Javascript

This is an implementation of J. H. Conway's cellular automata game of life in Javascript where the game board is a topologically a torus. See my design notes for a description of the game and how it is designed.

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  • Game Controls
  • Neighbors to survive
  • Neighbors for birth
  • File I/O
  • Clipboard
  • Life Pattern
  • --- Game State ---
  • Game of Life Clipboard
  • --- Cell State ---
--- Life Counter States Go Here ---

Download

Source code Version 3.4 is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

  • gameOfLife.js
  • Game of Life implemented in Javascript.
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  • life.html
  • HTML code for this page which calls gameOfLife.js
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Software Design

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Debugging

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