Conway's Game of Life, but as a div full of Braille characters
I built this many years ago to try out rendering images in textboxes, using braille characters as groups of 8 pixels. You can try different fonts to see how the spacing changes too.
Conway's Game of Life, but as a div full of Braille characters launched on June 28, 2024 with 104 votes, #568 of 4,672 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
This project renders Conway's Game of Life using Braille characters as pixels within a div element. Each Braille character represents a group of eight pixels, allowing the classic cellular automaton to display in text form. Users can experiment with different fonts to observe how character spacing affects the visual rendering. It was originally created as an exploration of image rendering techniques in textboxes.
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