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24 alternatives to I made Conway's Game of Life in JavaScript/Canvas
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I made Conway's Game of Life in JavaScript/Canvas launched in 2012; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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This is my spin on Conway's Game of Life. I have added the ability to create an account, save grids that you have discovered, and browse the gallery of grids saved by other people and replay them. This project has served as a sandbox for me to practice various aspects of developing a comprehensive web application from scratch. This was my first time developing a full scale web app with [almost] all the features you would expect. I know it is nowhere near perfect in its current state, but I feel it has reached a point of diminishing returns, and therefore my time is better spent focussing on…
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A Rust implementation of John Conway’s Game of Life, using a zoomable infinite grid, and with access to a pattern library.
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Browser checkbox-based Game of Life simulation
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A browser extension to play Conway's Game of Life on GitHub contribution board - yuanchuan/game-of-life
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All credit goes to https://twitter.com/WiseAndy
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Implementation to John Conway's Game of Life with JSXGraph.
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I recently started to learn code and created this game with next.js. please let me know your thoughts
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Game of Life in html/javascript, a journey from nice and readable to 203 chars total.
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Made this to try out o1-preview, took ~40 prompts and 3 hours in total, with a fairly solid backed written in Go. Works pretty badly in Firefox apparently due to canvas-canvas copies being really slow, Chrome works great tho. Doesn't work well on mobile yet, and has some other minor issues, but overall it feels incredible to put together something like this so quickly.
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