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Here is our Twitch Plays implementation: https://www.twitch.tv/bzh314 https://www.twitch.tv/bzh314 It supports RLEs [1] so you can quickly create some known sh
by BZH314 6y ago
Here is our Twitch Plays implementation: https://www.twitch.tv/bzh314 https://www.twitch.tv/bzh314
It supports RLEs [1] so you can quickly create some known shapes or test your own.
Crash course on RLEs:
b=dead, o=alive, $=new line
This is the RLE of xkcd's tribute to John Conway [2]:
2b3o$2bobo$2bobo$3bo$ob3o$bobobo$3bo2bo$2bobo$2bobo!
You can discover plenty of patterns with their RLEs on the Life Wiki [3]
Twitch Plays Conway's Game Of Life has a database of hundreds of patterns.
To learn patterns here's a 40-minute video you can quickly go through: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4XgALyX6w8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4XgALyX6w8
For instance you can make a Sir Robin [4] at the origin this way:
!SirRobin 0.0
or the xkcd pattern:
!xkcd 0.0
We also added our own twist, with color rules that lead to the Epic Toy Store Pixel Art [5] and Epic Masterpiece Pixel Art Decoration [6]
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[1] http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Run_Length_Encoded http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Run_Length_Encoded
[2] https://xkcd.com/2293/ https://xkcd.com/2293/
[3] https://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Main_Page https://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Main_Page
[4] https://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Sir_Robin https://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Sir_Robin
[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH5RzNnamW0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH5RzNnamW0
[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKxKac5YHag https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKxKac5YHag