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Andrew Davie

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I thought I'd knock up a quick version of John Conway's Life

https://plus.maths.org/content/life-universe-everything

 

Long-press RESET to start with a new random configuration.

It shouldn't be too much work to allow you to "draw" a starting pattern, and also allow you to load pre-set shapes.

 

The frame-rate is set to "6" at the moment.

It can go 6 times faster.  I might make that an option, too.

 

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Different display; same board size (40x22).

I think I could probably get the board to 40x33 with this-size pixels, or maybe 40 x 50 with a rearrangement.

But basically this was a bit of a what-if, and I'm happy enough with the result.

 

Edit: this is running at a frame-rate of "2"

 

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ZeroPage Homebrew will be checking out Life (In Space) on tomorrow's (Tue May 18, 2021) stream LIVE on Twitch at 6PM PT | 9PM ET | 1AM GMT! Hope everyone can watch!

 

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1 minute ago, Andrew Davie said:

 

That would be 1AM GMT on Wednesday 19th, I think!

 

Yes this always confuses my too,..

 

But as an Australian you are ahead of most of us, so you should be used to it.

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2 minutes ago, Al_Nafuur said:

Yes this always confuses my too,..

 

But as an Australian you are ahead of most of us, so you should be used to it.

?

 

I should be, but I just spent the past hour panic-building a version good-enough for the show :P

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Here's the version that was on the show... only runs on Stella at the moment (timing issues).

 

Controls:

SELECT (long press) = next colour scheme

RESET (long press) = default colour scheme

... or the other way around. One of those.

These both reset the speed back to default, too...  press UP a few times for nice/fast view

 

F3/F4 turn on/off B&W/colour (left difficulty)

F5/F6 turn on/off "rain" which puts it into an effective endless attract/demo mode

fire button = brief rain; use to "jog" a static/dead screen

 

UP - speed up animation

DOWN - slow down animation

 

LIFEINSPACE20210519#14.bin

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16 hours ago, Andrew Davie said:

Here's the version that was on the show... only runs on Stella at the moment (timing issues).

 

Hangs in Argon as well... Let folks know when you expect it to work in an emulator, and I'll try again...

 

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12 minutes ago, bhall408 said:

Hangs in Argon as well... Let folks know when you expect it to work in an emulator, and I'll try again...

 

Stella is an emulator, and it works in stella.

The only issue is with timing; it should work on most emulators, except the screen will roll.

However, if the emulator doesn't handle ARM... there's the issue right there.

 

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@Andrew Davie

HOLY FRACKEN WOW!!!!!

i just saw the demo on ZPH and immediately ran here to get the BIN! :P

this is EXACTLY the kind of bizarre noiz thing i am always looking for.

THANK YOU so much for developing this.

 

so...i had to weave it into my noiz session tonight.

i do a series of improvisational noiz sessions with my project Astrogenic Hallucinauting.

- threw the BIN of LIFE in SPACE onto the Harmony Cart.

- wired the noiz into a bunch of audio warping things.

- wired the video from LIFE in SPACE into my video synth rig and...madness ensued.

 

i also used a program called Zellen which turns LIFE into a MIDI sequencer.

(Zellen runs on a noiz computer called norns)

figured it was fitting to run the two together. heh!

 

here's a pic of LIFE in SPACE and Zellen at work:

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and here is the noiz session...
all the vid noiz source was generated from LIFE in SPACE and split into multiple vid-synths.

 

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2 hours ago, SPIKE said:

@Andrew Davie

HOLY FRACKEN WOW!!!!!

i just saw the demo on ZPH and immediately ran here to get the BIN! :P

this is EXACTLY the kind of bizarre noiz thing i am always looking for.

THANK YOU so much for developing this.

 

 

And thank you for the most interesting derivation. I enjoyed that. Will wonders never cease?

Cheers!

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