vbachev / game-of-life

Very simple implementation of Conway's Game of Life using JS

Conway's Game of Life

I recently read about a developer event (Balkan Code Retreat) that tries to hone people's programming skills while building Conway's Game of Life again and again. Thought it would be interesting to see if I can do it myslef in JS.

The script was slow and simple but I tried to optimize it based on this article. Another optimization was removing all DOM manipulations and using a box-shadow + background pattern implementation to represent the stage, grid and all cells (inspired by bit-shadow machine). Now a computation for the whole stage take around 5ms.

Well ... JS is not the best environment for this but it's fun anyway :)

Limitations

• Needs jQuery (included in lib/);
• May not work in IE or Opera;

NB! Running the game for a long time will heat up your CPU!