The first program I did in my Bally Astrocade so many years ago was Life. I remember thinking what a dream it would be to be able to run a 100x100 grid at one generation per second. I could not have dreamed of this.
The Game of Life is probably the first program I ever wrote. I (somehow) managed to get it working on a Timex Sinclair 2068 using a BASIC compiler which could only support one dimensional arrays.
People who are intrigued by Conway's Game of Life and cellular automata (CA) in general may enjoy tinkering with them in Golly [0], an open source sandbox for CAs.
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OTCA Metapixel - Conway's Game of Life http://www.instructables.com/id/OTCA-Metapixel-Conways-Game-...
http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/OTCA_metapixel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moir%C3%A9_pattern
https://thewalnut.io/visualizer/visualize/3631/987/
The first program I did in my Bally Astrocade so many years ago was Life. I remember thinking what a dream it would be to be able to run a 100x100 grid at one generation per second. I could not have dreamed of this.
[0] http://golly.sourceforge.net/