I’m currently working on a project based on Conway’s Game of Life, but with colors. I managed to replicate the rules easily, and added some extra things. It’s very basic right now.
Cells(not black) around a black pixel have a red color, darker when more black cells surround the red cell.
Cells that would go off the screen (x < 0, y < o, x > screenX, y > screenY) return on the other side. This creates an infinite loop when “Gliders” are active.
The program counts the total number of cell deaths per position (x, y), and displays a background color, in function of the deaths.
Two different viewing modes (normal & raster)
You can toggle the background color, clear background or cells, pause and design a pattern, change viewing mode and speed.
This is an early project, and it might grow in features.
Download link here.
You can visit my twitter for more updates on this.
Update: Added color correction so repeating patterns can’t create colors that have a much higher value than the other colors around it.
What I thought I was going to see might interest you:
That you place each initial cell with a colour. The colour of each child is then a blend (using some interesting formula) of its parents colours. This might create some interesting evolutionary colours. Then again, the whole world might just end up grey.
Yes! This was an idea from the start of the project.
I really like this idea, but I don’t know how to put this into the project, in a user-friendly way.
I’ll try!
