Game of Life Engineered to Print Stuff
The very clever @tlrobinson has taken the Game of Life and used it to generate arbitrary line drawings, starting with the Reddit alien. The code is called life-gen and hosted…
The very clever @tlrobinson has taken the Game of Life and used it to generate arbitrary line drawings, starting with the Reddit alien. The code is called life-gen and hosted right here on GitHub. Here’s a video of it in action:
Game of Life Reddit alien generator from Tom Robinson on Vimeo.
Make sure to read his [blog post](http://tlrobinson.net/blog/2009/02/07/game-of-life-generator/) about it for a more thorough walkthrough. Cool stuff!
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