Conway's Life activity

[Ross Andrews]

I think it would be neat to have a dedicated activity for it, with the  
ability to save interesting patterns in the journal, and so forth.

I was planning to put in a rule-editing system not unlike Autocell:
http://www.topshareware.com/Cellular-Automata-download-9567.htm
(I couldn't find any pages about it, just the download link. Fairly  
old Windows program.)

On Dec 24, 2007, at 7:27 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:

>  That reminds me of a version in Etoys.
>
> http://dev.laptop.org/~yoshiki/etoys/LifeGame.006.pr
>
> The nice thing about Etoys version is that you can edit the rule
> dynamically by drag-and-drop while the simulation is running.  You can
> just try "what-if" simualtions whenever you like.
>
>  On some installations, it may run very slowly; a plugin for
> accerating the particle system is missing in the VM.  Try it after we
> resolve the issue.
>
>  One can think to write a graphical DSL for specifying CA rules in
> Etoys.  That would be a fun project for hackers...
>
> -- Yoshiki
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