Saw folks having fun here with Conway's Game of Life and wanted to have a go for myself with #Processing . I can definitely see students having fun building their own cellular automata
@phitaylr it’s an enduring pleasure of mine that my first experience of the game of life began with a Commodore VIC20 and a 10x10 grid. I still have the book I copied the program from.
I’ve lived to see the game of life running within the game of life on a grid size so massive it would probably not have been possible to recreate on all of the VIC20s that ever existed.
@DigitalStefan That is awesome! I found a video of the simulation running on a VIC-20, will definitely use that in class. I guess 1983 would only have been a few years after Conway developed. Would you be able to post a photo of the code? That could turn into a neat lesson for students.
@DigitalStefan I may turn this into a retro computing activity and have students type into emulator before they do their own version in Java. Thank you again!
@DigitalStefan Amazing! Thank you so much, I know typing that in must have taken a while. Got it working on the emulator, can't wait to share with students!
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