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John Conway's Game of Life

Started by Djent, 17 January 2013 - 10:20 AM
Djent #1
Posted 17 January 2013 - 11:20 AM
First time posting on the forums. I made this over the past two days, with a lot of struggle. I'll post the source code eventually, you can program it yourself easily enough though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znIuGH-5-BQ

I also don't know if/how I can embed the youtube player in a forum post. Anyways, enjoy.
Cranium #2
Posted 17 January 2013 - 11:37 AM
Youtube links automatically embed. Not sure what I'm seeing here, but neat nonetheless….
ETHANATOR360 #3
Posted 22 January 2013 - 01:44 PM
cool i can watch conways game of life for like 5 hours strait it has a suprising entertainment value
Mikeemoo #4
Posted 22 January 2013 - 11:14 PM
Good work :)/> I'd not seen it implemented in CC yet.
Orwell #5
Posted 23 January 2013 - 02:15 AM
A video of a Gosper glider gun would be a nice way to show this off. ;)/> Good job.
Djent #6
Posted 24 January 2013 - 02:08 PM
A video of a Gosper glider gun would be a nice way to show this off. ;)/> Good job.

The problem with drawing the cells in the advanced computer terminal is that you have a very small screen. I've been working to just draw the initial generation in the terminal, and then send it to a monitor of any size to watch, with a much larger screen. Still, there is a problem with this. The initial generation is still limited by what you can draw in the computercraft terminal. This makes making popular large cell patterns very hard, or impossible.
NeverCast #7
Posted 24 January 2013 - 02:16 PM
How about getting the program to work with monitor touch events :)/>
Then you can draw on a large monitor!
Djent #8
Posted 27 January 2013 - 09:34 AM
How about getting the program to work with monitor touch events :)/>
Then you can draw on a large monitor!
I haven't seen anything in the APIs about that, or anywhere else for that matter. Do you have any links to any documentation?
Cranium #9
Posted 27 January 2013 - 12:24 PM
How about getting the program to work with monitor touch events :)/>
Then you can draw on a large monitor!
I haven't seen anything in the APIs about that, or anywhere else for that matter. Do you have any links to any documentation?
it should work like any normal "mouse_click" events.
Djent #10
Posted 27 January 2013 - 01:50 PM
How about getting the program to work with monitor touch events :)/>
Then you can draw on a large monitor!
I haven't seen anything in the APIs about that, or anywhere else for that matter. Do you have any links to any documentation?
it should work like any normal "mouse_click" events.

I'll see what I can do. I haven't been doing much computercraft work lately.