conways-game-of-life – Tarik Billa

Optimizing Conway’s ‘Game of Life’

July 18, 2023 by Tarik

I am going to quote my answer from the other question, because the chapters I mention have some very interesting and fine-tuned solutions. Some of the implementation details are in c and/or assembly, yes, but for the most part the algorithms can work in any language: Chapters 17 and 18 of Michael Abrash’s Graphics Programmer’s … Read more

Code Golf: Conway’s Game of Life

February 12, 2023 by Tarik

Mathematica – 179 163 154 151 chars a = {2, 2, 2}; s = Export[“out.txt”, CellularAutomaton[{224, {2, {a, {2, 1, 2}, a}}, {1,1}}, (ReadList[#1, Byte, RecordLists → 2>1] – 46)/ 42, #2]〚#2〛 /. {0 → “.”, 1 → “X”}, “Table”] & Spaces added for readability Invoke with s[“c:\life.txt”, 100] Animation: You can also get a … Read more