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Conway's Game of Life is generalized to a continuous domain. OpenGL and GLSL shaders are used for real-time 2D and 3D graphics. Time stepping is done via a real to complex FFT based convolution operation. There are also two deliberately simple test implementations in FreeBasic and Matlab. A 2D version on a sphere shows that it is really not dependent on the underlying grid.
Features
- 1D, 2D and 3D with various visualization choices
- uses FFT for fast computation even for big neighborhoods
- change parameters in real-time and watch the effect
- parameters are saved and loaded easily, nothing is lost of your experiments
- uses the GPU for maximum performance, float precision is sufficient
- simple version in FreeBasic that should be transferable to any system or language
- small version in Matlab that shows the concept very clearly
- version on a sphere that proves the independence of the underlying grid
- version using SDL, that is the same for Windows, Linux and Mac (only source)
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Hi. The main smooth executable file work fine and its very interesting, but I can't seem to get the matlab code to work. Errors like 'Creating a string using double quotes is not supported. Use the string function.' Have you run into this problem before? Maybe from a newer version of Matlab
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Smoothlife works perfectly.
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Great project! Any chance to get it running under GNU/Linux?
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Amazingly good! The rules are astonishing. And with FFT for speed, this runs really fast, even in 3D.