RGB of Life
Games
cellular automaton
SHOW HN2014
79points
31comments
#377of 2,272 in 2014
Top 17%of 2014 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
3 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 10 critical, out of 22 comments about the project. Thread score -0.27.
Design: 1 for, 7 againstIdea: 1 for, 2 againstPerformance: 1 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Visually pretty and fun to watch
From 3 comments
Did a morning thing where I opened up a bunch of HN links in different tabs. Halfway through, my browser started seizing up, operating system becoming unresponsive. Spent 15…
pp19dd on HNMan, I love this thing. For extra beauty, turn on the pencil (it can stay the default color, black) and click-drag it across the canvas any which way while there are colors…
konklone on HNGives an interesting effect when on weed, probably also true with other psychoactive drugs.
mschuster91 on HN
Light on CPU usage
From 1 comment
Looks great, and unlike most web demos this one is fairly light on CPU usage!
null_ptr on HN
Objections
Layers don't interact, so it isn't really a 24-dimensional game
From 3 comments
24 parallel games of like != 24 dimensional game. It appears that the different layers do not interact with each other, or am I missing something?
chrisBob on HNExactly - this is 24 separate 2 dimensional Games of Life overlaid on each other for visual effect. To be 24 dimensional, the rules would have to be quite different: at each turn…
scrumper on HN24 parallel games combined in a way indecipherable to normal human eyes isn't terribly interesting to me. I find SmoothLife more interesting:…
TazeTSchnitzel on HN
Patterns hard to discern; lower bits invisible to the eye
From 2 comments
nice, but would be nice if we could set the number of simulations and speed. the patterns are not clearly discernable (for me personally).
hakcermani on HNYou can only see them on games occupying higher bits, however. Lower bits (like the 1 or 2 bits, for example) can't be seen by the naked eye.
TazeTSchnitzel on HN
Flashing colors may trigger seizures or migraines; needs warning
From 2 comments
i'm _NOT_ trying to be funny. you should seriously consider putting a warning page on that site that this could induce seizures or migraines.
rip747 on HNWell, I'm not an expert, but the w3c Accesibility guidelines say: "2.3.1 Three Flashes or Below Threshold: Web pages do not contain anything that flashes more than three times in…
singold on HN
Heavy on browser resources when left open
From 1 comment
Did a morning thing where I opened up a bunch of HN links in different tabs. Halfway through, my browser started seizing up, operating system becoming unresponsive. Spent 15…
pp19dd on HN
Requests
Add a warning page or start button
From 2 comments
I think a better experience is possible with a start button over a static background to provide the viewer with an idea about what they're about to get into.
ewest on HNi'm _NOT_ trying to be funny. you should seriously consider putting a warning page on that site that this could induce seizures or migraines.
rip747 on HN
Add controls for number of layers and speed
From 1 comment
nice, but would be nice if we could set the number of simulations and speed. the patterns are not clearly discernable (for me personally).
hakcermani on HN
Add touch event support
From 1 comment
Please support touch events.
tantalor on HN
Label the buttons
From 1 comment
That's really nice. Some labeling for buttons would be appreciated. (am on Chrome on a Mac)
hetid on HN
Questions
Is the source code available?
From 1 comment
do you have the source code of this? I had an awesome idea a long time ago that is almost the same as that, but I was a CS noob and tried it in Java... can you throw that on…
guidopallemans on HN
Alternatives named
SmoothLife
From 1 comment
24 parallel games combined in a way indecipherable to normal human eyes isn't terribly interesting to me. I find SmoothLife more interesting:…
TazeTSchnitzel on HN
Color Life by node99
From 1 comment
I always liked the idea of color life. I like that this did one game for each bit. That's an interesting take on it and the results look nice. I made a quick color life a few…
DougHaber on HN
Srolfe GameOfLife.js
From 1 comment
Very cool! I had started on a basic GOL recently as well (HTML5/Canvas): http://srolfe.github.io/GameOfLife.js/ Still very much a WIP, but it was getting there.
chewmieser on HN