Conway's Game of Life - Javascript/Canvas Implementation

Running Information

Generation: | Live cells: | Step time: ms

Hint: hit the Play button!

Controls

Layout

Patterns

Benchmarks (heavy patterns / experimental)

Benchmark #1

Benchmark #2

What is this?

This page contains a Javascript implementation of the well know John Conway's Game of Life. It uses the List Life algorithm (by Tony Finch) and a Canvas interface for drawing.

This is a work in progress and will add some new features in the near future:

Zoom controls
Canvas navigation controls
More patterns
Proper benchmark support
...

Previous versions

1.0.0 - First public release. It uses the simplest algorithm possible and a table for drawing. Online here: pmav.eu.
2.0.0 - Private release, first implementation of the List Life algorithm.
3.1.1 - Current version, List Life and Canvas.

Source Code

Javascript source code is available here: game-of-life-v3.1.1.js. A zip file with all code ready to run is available here: game-of-life-v3.1.1.zip.

License

This work is licenced under a MIT license (except any 3rd party code).

3rd Party

Powered by CSS Browser Selector and JSON Sans Eval.

Video

The following video demonstrates some features of this program.

Links

Some links about Conway's Game of Life: