Conway’s Webcam of Life: HTML5 Canvas, Webcam, and Video Effects #Javascript
Nathan Wilson has designed a version of Conway’s Game of Life using a webcam as a seed image.
Conway’s Game of Life “is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970.” Yep, I’m quoting Wikipedia.
There are a lot of implementations of Conway’s Game of Life out there. I’d originally started by writing an implementation in Golang, and afterwards found a more graceful implementation here (in Javascript).
To me, what makes Conway’s Game of Life interesting is the initial state – and so Conway’s Webcam of Life was born.
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