Show HN: Stacked Game of Life
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3 days ago
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ralferoo
1 hour ago
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This is the kind of visualisation that obvious in retrospect, but I don't think anybody's done this before. Very nice.

I think the only change I'd make really is to give the top layer and obviously different colour so you can view from the top and see the current configuration. Currently it just looks confusing because e.g. a - oscillator looks like + instead.

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xnx
1 hour ago
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Here's one from 2018: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/9xfquc/3d_visualizati...

One from 2 weeks ago: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUxkEiWDS-q/

I'm sure there is much older.

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thih9
39 minutes ago
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I like this one, from 1 year ago; a tall structure rendered in Blender: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D50iRzBI3qc
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boomlinde
13 minutes ago
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Hmm, shouldn't this pattern be perfectly stable?

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    o o
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In this simulation it seems to oscillate between two patterns.

Very interesting visualization either way!

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VibeSchema
3 days ago
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What does stacked mean? Is this just 3D game of life where cells die unless 5-6 neighbours and come alive with 4 neighbours? But very cool, would also be cool if you could specify initial configurations perhaps. (BTW, github link seems broken.)
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VibeSchema
3 days ago
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Ah found answers in README of vnglst/stacked-game-of-life, nice idea!
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vnglst
3 days ago
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Yes, that's right, it's https://github.com/vnglst/stacked-game-of-life

The link was broken indeed. Should be fixed now. Glad you like it!

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Tepix
2 hours ago
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Could you make the number of history layers and their opacity configurable?
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freetonik
2 hours ago
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Very cool! Would be great to be able to rotate/zoom the 3D space.
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psini
1 hour ago
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Am able to rotate/pan/zoom with firefox on desktop using the mouse buttons and scroll wheel
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Schlagbohrer
2 hours ago
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It can at least be rotated, as I did so.
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perilunar
2 hours ago
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Very cool!
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