Conway's Game of Life, in real life
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Conway's Game of Life, in real life
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Re: Conway's Game of Life, in real life
#2Nice. A friend of mine just picked up a Linnstrument, and I’m very tempted to create a Conway’s Game of Life-based musical visualization for it.
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#3I don't want to build this or pay for it, but I really want to mess with it for an hour.
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#4My Alma matter has a jumbo version of this, in which the game if life is one of several available mode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioWall
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#5I've always wanted something like this board, buttons which can light up (preferably a few colours), to use to make games. Anyone ever found such a board which is hackable / programmable?
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#6I wonder is there a version GoL where every bit on a computer-display or LCD TV is one cell? How does it look?
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#7I wonder is there a version GoL where every bit on a computer-display or LCD TV is one cell? How does it look?
Do you mean every pixel or every sub-pixel?
Sub-pixel is interesting because the geometry of the grid isn't going to be the same from one screen to the other. It might also look compressed horizontally.
Re: Conway's Game of Life, in real life
#8I've always wanted something like this board, buttons which can light up (preferably a few colours), to use to make games. Anyone ever found such a board which is hackable / programmable?
Novation Launchpad used to be exactly that: you send MIDI CC messages with proper values and you can light up the grid (with different colors).
Did that a few years back, i guess this might still be possible
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#9Très cool.
A grid of capacitive touch sensors could be printed directly on the pcb, bringing down costs by a degree of magnitude. Real switches are much more satisfying though.
Re: Conway's Game of Life, in real life
#10I wonder is there a version GoL where every bit on a computer-display or LCD TV is one cell? How does it look?
Do you mean every pixel or every sub-pixel? Sub-pixel is interesting because the geometry of the grid isn't going to be the same from one screen to the other. It might also look compressed horizontally.
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