Conways Game of Life is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway.
It's not a line-by-line copy, but this tutorial was used for inspiration. Besides tuning some of the logic, the canvas is now set up to resize and reload when the screen size changes, I've set up the project to have dependencies managed by NPM, rewritten it to ES6 and added a test suite.
Live demo here
- Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbors dies, as if by underpopulation.
- Any live cell with two or three live neighbors lives on to the next generation.
- Any live cell with more than three live neighbors dies, as if by overpopulation.
- Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbors becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction.
Install npm dependencies
npm install The project is written in ES6 and is transpiled with Babel using Webpack. To start the development server
npm startTo build for production
npm run buildTo preview the production build
npm run previewThe most critical functions have unit tests, located in the /src/sketch.test.js folder. To run the test suite with JEST run the command npm run test.
Current status:
As a little added bonus, if you load the game on a modern smartphone (iOS 4.2.1+, Android 4.0.3+) you can shake the phone to reset the application. After a while the cellular automation tends to reach a stable state so this is a way to disrupt it. Alternatively you can resize the screen or reload the page. To detect motion shake.js was used.