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How HN took it
3 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score +0.07.
Design: 1 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Pattern library and fun to observe creative patterns
From 2 comments
Simply fantastic. I love Conway's Game of Life. This page makes it easy to observe a huge variety of creative patterns. The book "The Recursive Universe" by William Poundstone is…
Minor49er on HNNeat! The option called "Bloom" looked especially interesting when zoomed out.
darken on HN
Grey marking of previously occupied cells is appealing
From 1 comment
This is cool. What I particularly like about it is the use of grey to show which tiles were previously occupied. One change you might want to consider is making left click…
jart on HN
Objections
Panning and zooming break on mobile after choosing a pattern
From 1 comment
This doesn't work well on mobile. Once a pattern is chosen, panning and zooming is broken.
fistynuts on HN
Patterns placed in the lexicon stick together in some cases
From 1 comment
BUG: when several patterns are shown in the lexicon, it sticks them together see: garden of eden, rabbits
smegsicle on HN
Requests
Configurable birth/death rules
From 1 comment
Awesome! A feature suggestion, if I may. It's fun to play with the rules of the game itself. Would you consider adding a way to tweak the birth/death rules? For example, "B3/S23"…
hoten on HN
Free-form drawing on left click, drag on right click
From 1 comment
This is cool. What I particularly like about it is the use of grey to show which tiles were previously occupied. One change you might want to consider is making left click…
jart on HN
Alternative boundary conditions such as torus
From 1 comment
Adding boundary conditions can be very interesting also. Ive played with things like stitching the field into a torus or klein bottle. You can end up with unique repeating…
yummypaint on HN
Questions
How the predefined patterns were discovered
From 1 comment
Can someone tell me more about how the predefined Game of Life patterns came to be? It it fascinating to me that these have names that people remember. I know this subject is…
hx2a on HN
Alternatives named
Other Rust Game of Life implementations
From 3 comments
Another Life implementation in Rust: https://github.com/brundonsmith/life And my own fork of it, with extra features: https://github.com/DarkStar1982/life
d_silin on HNNice! I also wrote my own implementation of the game of life not long ago! It’s less fleshed out, but it was a fun little project. https://gameoflife.plonq.org/…
plonq on HNNice. I made something very similar to this more than 20 years ago using wxWidgets. It is still included in the standard distribution as a demo:…
grodriguez100 on HN