Game of Life
What is this?
A simulation program for a cellular automata known as Conway's Game of Life that runs inside a webpage.
Want to give it a go?
Paint some cells on the grid by clicking on the cells for the starting state, and then press the spacebar key or the S key to start or step the simulation.
NOTE: The grid size can be changed by providing
?c=<size>in the URLNOTE: The 'Save' button or
CTRL+Swill save your initial commited state as a URL: Glider example
Key bindings
- Left click / Right click
- Add / Remove cells
- Rkey
- Resets view
- CTRL+- Z
- Reset simulation to initial state
- CTRL+- S
- Store the initial state as a variable in the URL
- SPACE
- Start the generation
- Skey
- Increment generation step-by-step
- ← ↑ → ↓ / SHIFT+ click
- Moves around the grid
- Scroll wheel
- Zoom in/out