Show HN: A variant of Conway's Game of Life in color you can run on your phone

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2 years ago

Given the recent interest in Conway's Game of Life, I thought I'd share a variant with 2 tweaks to the rules:

* All live cells have a color

* When a cell is born it randomly takes on the color of one of its (3) parents.

To try it out:

1. Download LÖVE for your device from https://love2d.org (~5MB and open source). (iOS requires building from source on a Mac, or installing the third-party Love2D Studio: https://love2d-studio.marknoteapp.com)

2. Download my Lua Carousel from https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel (~100KB). It includes all its source code and can be edited live on a computer as it runs.

3. Copy the ~100 lines of code from the bottom of https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/651711/new-version-after-9-days and paste them into Lua Carousel.

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