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Re:Show HN: Game of Life on non-square topologies with 2^32 ... by KevinDonnot on Monday November 07, 2022 @04:06PM (#33512459)
See also SmoothLife, an amazing continuous version of Game of life. Integers are replaced by floats providing the same patterns with circular shapes. Here: https://conwaylife.com/wiki/OCA:SmoothLife
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Re:Show HN: Game of Life on non-square topologies with 2^32 ... by jeadie on Monday November 07, 2022 @05:13PM (#33513312)
This is neat and has so many ideas that inspired me for Go-L. I like the GPU and parallelism (and OpenGL). If I took it to a floating point concept, I'd love to do PDE modelling with it too.
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