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Conway's Game of Life, in checkboxes for some reason

72 points by RafelMri 2y ago

blagie 2y ago
Interesting. Is this intended as a way to implement the UX for GDPR cookies / tracking opt-in / opt-out screen. If so, it's brilliant.
- chrisshroba 2y ago
  "Configure this game of life to be 13 transitions before a state that spells 'Opt out' in block letters to opt out of cookie collection."
  - hun3 2y ago
    Plot twist: the 'Opt out' is only 12 transitions away from a Garden of Eden configuration, making it force opt in
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kvgr 2y ago
Can you make it bigger? it is too small for glider gun :)
- ahuth 2y ago
  Done. Now it's double the size (50 x 50). 100 x 100 works too, although was noticeably slower.
  - jerpint 2y ago
    Still blazing fast on iPhone
jerpint 2y ago
Nice! I did a game of life using stable diffusion recently, check it out :) https://www.jerpint.io/blog/diffusion-gol/ https://www.jerpint.io/blog/diffusion-gol/
- ahuth 2y ago
  That's pretty sweet. Nice job!
0xdada 2y ago
Love the use of light blue color for the blinking cells! Surprisingly smooth UX considering we have checkboxes for cells.
kachapopopow 2y ago
li { height: 20px; width: 20px; } input[type="checkbox"] { width: 20px; height: 20px; } Now you can't even tell the difference between the real thing!
o_1 2y ago
seems broken in my mobile browser
- j16sdiz 2y ago
  What browser are you using? Work for me on Firefox/android
mensetmanusman 2y ago
Runs ridiculously fast on my iPhone 14 Pro Max :)
- iamgopal 2y ago
  We programmers mostly living in abstraction on top of abstraction have actually no idea how fast our computer has become.
- beardyw 2y ago
  Yes, a slower speed option would be good.
bsdooby 2y ago
I did a similar design using Tcl w/ Tk ;)
gnatman 2y ago
there was a similar checkbox game of life at the top of HN earlier this week, albeit one operating under different rules edit: i see that it’s back!!
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jeroenheijmans 2y ago
That's cool but now do it with only html+css! (jk this is already pretty cool! :D)
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olooney 2y ago
That's interesting, I recently wrote a game of life that uses PyTorch to run on the GPU: https://gist.github.com/olooney/d835353176bd9a679ad2f057cd58ba53 https://gist.github.com/olooney/d835353176bd9a679ad2f057cd58... It benefits from using PyTorch's 2D convolution operation but sufferers it has to keep casting types to get it to work. Still, it's quite fast for very large grids!
- jerpint 2y ago
  I implemented a version of game of life using 2D convolutions from scipy, I’d be curious to see how it compares to GPU crunching

72 points by RafelMri 2y ago

Interesting. Is this intended as a way to implement the UX for GDPR cookies / tracking opt-in / opt-out screen. If so, it's brilliant.

chrisshroba 2y ago
"Configure this game of life to be 13 transitions before a state that spells 'Opt out' in block letters to opt out of cookie collection."
- hun3 2y ago
  Plot twist: the 'Opt out' is only 12 transitions away from a Garden of Eden configuration, making it force opt in

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kvgr 2y ago

Can you make it bigger? it is too small for glider gun :)

ahuth 2y ago
Done. Now it's double the size (50 x 50). 100 x 100 works too, although was noticeably slower.
- jerpint 2y ago
  Still blazing fast on iPhone

jerpint 2y ago

Nice! I did a game of life using stable diffusion recently, check it out :) https://www.jerpint.io/blog/diffusion-gol/ https://www.jerpint.io/blog/diffusion-gol/

ahuth 2y ago
That's pretty sweet. Nice job!

0xdada 2y ago

Love the use of light blue color for the blinking cells! Surprisingly smooth UX considering we have checkboxes for cells.

kachapopopow 2y ago

li { height: 20px; width: 20px; } input[type="checkbox"] { width: 20px; height: 20px; } Now you can't even tell the difference between the real thing!

o_1 2y ago

seems broken in my mobile browser

j16sdiz 2y ago
What browser are you using? Work for me on Firefox/android

mensetmanusman 2y ago

Runs ridiculously fast on my iPhone 14 Pro Max :)

iamgopal 2y ago
We programmers mostly living in abstraction on top of abstraction have actually no idea how fast our computer has become.
beardyw 2y ago
Yes, a slower speed option would be good.

bsdooby 2y ago

I did a similar design using Tcl w/ Tk ;)

gnatman 2y ago

there was a similar checkbox game of life at the top of HN earlier this week, albeit one operating under different rules edit: i see that it’s back!!

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jeroenheijmans 2y ago

That's cool but now do it with only html+css! (jk this is already pretty cool! :D)

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olooney 2y ago

That's interesting, I recently wrote a game of life that uses PyTorch to run on the GPU: https://gist.github.com/olooney/d835353176bd9a679ad2f057cd58ba53 https://gist.github.com/olooney/d835353176bd9a679ad2f057cd58... It benefits from using PyTorch's 2D convolution operation but sufferers it has to keep casting types to get it to work. Still, it's quite fast for very large grids!

jerpint 2y ago
I implemented a version of game of life using 2D convolutions from scipy, I’d be curious to see how it compares to GPU crunching