Conway’s Game of Life, Pong, Screensavers, and Me…

Greetings, all:

Due to the massive increase in my blog traffic (I think I het around 20 / week or so) after I initially offered up my Game of Life screensaver, I now offer, in celebration of the new year, GoLPong!

That’s right, for 2009 you now can have a fancy new Game of Life screensaver.  BUT THIS ONE’S PACKED WITH NEW FEATURES!  Well, what are they?

• Game of Life does both trails and no trails
• Flickers between trails and non-trails
• Pong played live by your computer against itself
• Alternates randomly between these two!

Oh my god, you say, but how much does it cost?

Free.  Because I love you.

It is a beautifully dumb screensaver.  You can get it here.  The source code (uncommented, of course) is here.

Tell me how you like it.  Also, send me comments for the 2010 version you’d like to see.

~ZagNut

Conway's Game of Life, Java, Smoking, and Me...

Ok, I've done it again. Another Conway's Game of Life, this time in Java:

The source code can be had here. It's called Gola (Game Of Life Applet).

So, I've quit smoking. I started July 6 at 11:27pm (my last cigarette). It is going much better this time.  This is my third time.  The first two times I quit for 2+ years each time.  I know this time is my final one.  Why?  I had a "moment" where I just didn't want them anymore.

That feeling stayed, even after I failed, so I set a quit date, got the patch, got lots of pretzel sticks, and made sure I didn't sit around and drink coffee in the morning.  This is the third day, and I had to stay home today.  I felt like I had the flu and slept until 1:00pm.  I've been a vegetable and sleeping on and off since.  It's 5:33pm now, and I'm finally getting a little energy back.  I wrote a little C# program for watching the "progress" of quitting.  I was going to include the health benefits stages as stages that would appear below the timer, but I slacked.  Here's the code and benefits list.

Conway's Game of Life in Javascript, and Me...

Ok, I went and done it...

With my inability to purge my rotting brain of Conway's Game of Life, I have produced none-other than a super double-buffered javascript only Conway's Game of Life!

Hopefully I can sleep now. Below is it in all it's glory. You can get the javascript to run it here.

NOTE: ARRRRRRGGGGHHH!!! Ok, trying to get javascript to run in blogger, but it'll take a little work. Here's so you can see it works

ADDENDUM: In Blogspot, IE doesn't like this script so well, nor does Firefox. I've removed it from the page but you can still see it at the link above.

ADDENDUM REDUX: Well, IE does not like this script at all. Performance is lousy and display is f-ed up. Firefox runs it like a champ.

Conway's Game of Life REDUX!, Screensavers, and Me...

NOTE as of 06.23.08
The source is now available through this page

I've become obsessed with this stupid Game of Life shite. All my other projects are on hold until I get this out of my system.

So far, I've gotten out a simple, plug-in based .NET version: Yagol.NET.

Now, for your pleasure, it's: The Yagol++ Screensaver!

I added "traces" of where a cell used to be live up to five generations earlier.

The saver can be downloaded here. Now, here's the catch: if you want a link to the source, I'll post it as a comment reply after I've received some comments from you all requesting it. I NEED ATTENTION!

Thanx!

~simon

C++, Conway's Game of Life, and Me...

NOTE as of 5.03.08
Update to code. It actually works now. (what do you expect in 30 minutes)

NOTE as of 06.23.08
C++ source is now available through this page

NOTE as of 01.13.2009
ALL NEW C++ Game of Life screensaver, with PONG! Get it (and source) here!

Ok, just trying to get back into C/C++ for work and decided to quick write Conway's Game of Life. I have named it thusly YAGOL (Yet Another Game Of Life).

I so hate C/C++ Win32 programming after working in C#. Been working on it for a few days and nights and had enough. Whipped a YAGOL.NET out in like 30 minutes.

Here's my C# version of YAGOL (Yet Another Game Of Life). I'll be revising it every now and then. It's total shit as of this post, but...

Source included.

Hey, if you decide to make rules or changes, email them here.