Show HN: Stacked Game of Life

(stacked-game-of-life.koenvangilst.nl)

93 points | by vnglst 3 days ago

7 comments

  • ralferoo 3 hours ago
    This is the kind of visualisation that obvious in retrospect, but I don't think anybody's done this before. Very nice.

    I think the only change I'd make really is to give the top layer and obviously different colour so you can view from the top and see the current configuration. Currently it just looks confusing because e.g. a - oscillator looks like + instead.

  • WillMorr 16 minutes ago
    Very nice visualization, the fade out really adds to the organic feel.

    I've been playing with a similar system but designed for 3d printing, it's simple to make it self-supporting by just drawing a line from each parent to each child which is neat.

  • boomlinde 2 hours ago
    Hmm, shouldn't this pattern be perfectly stable?

         o
        o o
         o
    
    In this simulation it seems to oscillate between two patterns.

    Very interesting visualization either way!

    • qchamaeleon 45 minutes ago
      I'm guessing you're looking at three cells switching between vertical and horizontal.

      O O to OOO and back again. O

  • huhtenberg 9 minutes ago
    I am a simple man. I see Game of Life in the title, I upvote the post.
  • VibeSchema 3 days ago
    What does stacked mean? Is this just 3D game of life where cells die unless 5-6 neighbours and come alive with 4 neighbours? But very cool, would also be cool if you could specify initial configurations perhaps. (BTW, github link seems broken.)
  • freetonik 4 hours ago
    Very cool! Would be great to be able to rotate/zoom the 3D space.
    • xnorswap 55 minutes ago
      Not only can you rotate with right-click, you can also pan and zoom and manually add cells.
    • psini 3 hours ago
      Am able to rotate/pan/zoom with firefox on desktop using the mouse buttons and scroll wheel
    • Schlagbohrer 4 hours ago
      It can at least be rotated, as I did so.
  • perilunar 4 hours ago
    Very cool!