Game of Life with Quil
Conway's Game of Life implemented in ClojureScript
Conway's Game of Life is a cellular automaton created by the mathematician John Conway. It has four simple rules:
- Any cell with fewer than two neighbors dies
- Any cell with two or three neighbors lives
- Any cell with more than three neighbors dies
- Any unpopulated cell with exactly three neighbors becomes populated
For more information on the Game of Life, check out the Wikipedia article.
Quil is a Clojure/ClojureScript library for creating interactive art. It is based on the Processing language.
Run lein compile and open index.html in your browser.
For interactive development run lein cljsbuild auto. This command will recompile cljs to js each time you modify core.cljs and you can see result immediately by refreshing the page.
The game starts in a paused state with no cells. Left-click on a cell to populate it. Right-click on a populated cell to depopulate it. You can click-and-drag to populate or depopulate multiple cells. When you have configured the game you way you want, press the play button and see what happens! The slider controls game speed.
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