Game of Life

This is a pretty basic implementation of John Conway's Game of Life, a mathematical game played on a grid. Each grid cell can be alive or dead, and for each generation a live cell can stay alive or die, and a dead cell can come alive, based on it's number of nearest neighbors (measured using Chebyshev distance).

A hosted version is available at https://mattiasolla.github.io/game-of-life.

These rules are parametrized in the constant RULES in game-of-life.ts, and are currently the standard configuration:

1. A live cell with fewer than 2 neighbors will die of loneliness.
2. A live cell with more than 3 neighbors will die of overpopulation.
3. A dead cell will come alive if it has exactly 3 neighbors.

Implementation

This project is implemented as a pure frontend application using Svelte and Typescript.