My Conway's Game of Life application

A few months ago I had some spare time, so I wrote a program to simulate Conway's Game of Life (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life). This particular simulation reached stability after about 1200 generations with a population of approximately 1050.

You can download the application at http://atlex.nl/index/c-gol. The developers version has the source (C#/VS2005) plus some documentation included.

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[teabagtime]

I wish someone would make a full 1080p res version of the game of life, 25 generations a second, one pixel per cell...

Would be pretty.

[akamsteeg]

My implementation is capable of scaling to 1920x1080 pixels with a cell size of 1px, but you need a very very fast computer to run it with 25 generations per second. :) On a T7100 CPU I get around 11 generations per second on a 1680x1050 world. :)

[Ran4444]

Well, if you use time-saving techniques, 1080p would be really easy with a modern computer. 1080p is just 2 million cells.

[akamsteeg]

That depends on the size of the cells. ;) And since you need 2 generations to calculate the differences between the generations you have 4 million cells. Also, memory usage is not the bottleneck, my paint algorithm is very CPU intensive and that's causing trouble with large worlds.

[teabagtime]

Ooooooh, I'd say you should make a video of that, but with youtube quality it's rather pointless.

I'd download your app if I wasn't using satan's soul destroyer (a mac)!

[QueenFanIII]

@teabagtime I have a Java version that's highly optimized which scales , depending on memory/cpu, to 100,000^2. Mind you, it's 4 years later now. Once it loads files i'll happily link you to it if your still interested. I'm trying to determine if it will work similarly as a page app.

[G3org3Master]

@Ran4444 what? he said: "My implementation is capable of scaling to 1920x1080 pixels with a cell size "

[Ran4444]

Wait, your graphics output algorithm is so intensive that you can't output 1920*1080? What? That sounds really, really weird. Something must be wrong. Try rewriting your graphics code...

[Dan14159]

The game of life... I've always been fascinated by it. That's a neat program you've got there. 4/5.

[Sergiuss555]

yes, akamsteeg, what about better video? it would be very appreciated