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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashlife
Here's one of my attempts, you can play with it in a browser. There's infinite scrolling, and you can do ridiculous things like start up a glider gun and watch it run out to billions of generations.
http://raganwald.com/hashlife/
The source code is on Github:
Great work! However, one pedantic comment: it doesn't look like Life to me -- it looks like In-Place-Life-Without-Double-Buffering. I can't follow the code, but the NEXT state of a cell should depend strictly on the PREVIOUS state of the cell and its neighbors, not the NEXT state of any of the neighbors. So if you don't double buffer the cells, and execute the rule in-place instead (and presumably scan in row major l…
I think every dev should have a go at Conway's life, I made one a while ago too http://www.markysoft.com/es6life/
It's good fun to try it with different languages because the base problem is simple enough to learn how to solve it rather quickly.
> I was bored and Be proud of your experimentation! We're all fellow geeks here. You don't have to hedge like this with us about spending your time hacking. Thanks for sharing!
I don't think of this as a hedge; rather, it's saying "look what I was able to do in my spare time!"