Cellular Automaton (2D, Texture-Mapped)

This is a 2D cellular automaton of Conways's Game of Life. To use this CA, you can set the intial configuration by clicking on squares. Cells are denoted as black. Empty squares that have no cell use the background color.

To run the CA, once configured, you must communicate with it using Channel 1. The commands are:

start [delay] -- run the CA using the optional [delay]
stop -- stops the CA
spew -- outputs a reloadable

For example, open up a chat window and type:

/1 start

Conways' Game of life evaluations each grid point, using a Moore neighborhood (8 grid points around any given grid point)

• a new cell is born on a grid point if there are exactly 3 neighboring cells
• a cell survives if there are 2 or 3 neighboring cells
• a cell dies otherwise (0,1,4,5,6,7, or 8 neighboring cells)