{"id":163,"date":"2009-01-21T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T07:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/?p=565"},"modified":"2009-01-21T00:00:10","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T07:00:10","slug":"quasimondos-game-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"Game of Life Snippets"},"content":{"rendered":"

SNIPPET ONE<\/a><\/p>\n

SNIPPET TWO<\/a><\/p>\n

I was very impressed when I saw Mario Klingemann’s game of line in 3 lines of code blog post<\/a> late last year. I’ve been meaning to post about it for awhile – finally got around to it.<\/p>\n

Mario Klingemann<\/a> is the developer of Peacock<\/a>… an excellent node based image generator written in ActionScript.<\/p>\n

BitmapData.paletteMap() is very powerful. I haven’t done much with it, but I have some ideas floating around.<\/p>\n

For those of you that are game of live savvy… try other rule sets from the lexicon… my personal favorite has always been coral (45678\/3). Here’s a link to some more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Another short game of life recently appeared on on the 25lines.com<\/a> forums…. here<\/a>… the forum post features a nice explanation for using a ConvolutionFilter and Threshold to create The Game of Life. The technique is so small and impressive looking that I figured I’d post it as is right here:<\/p>\n

\r\naddChild(new Bitmap(new BitmapData(stage.stageWidth, stage.stageHeight, false, 0)))["bitmapData"].noise(int(Math.random()*int.MAX_VALUE),0,255,7,true);\r\naddEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, function (e) {\r\n   getChildAt(0)["bitmapData"].applyFilter(getChildAt(0)["bitmapData"], getChildAt(0)["bitmapData"].rect, new Point(), new ConvolutionFilter(3, 3, [3,3,3,3,2,3,3,3,3],255,0,true,false,0,1));\r\n   getChildAt(0)["bitmapData"].threshold(getChildAt(0)["bitmapData"], getChildAt(0)["bitmapData"].rect, new Point(), "==", 8, 0xFFFFFFFF, 0xFC);\r\n   getChildAt(0)["bitmapData"].threshold(getChildAt(0)["bitmapData"], getChildAt(0)["bitmapData"].rect, new Point(), "!=", 0xFFFFFFFF, 0x00000000)})\r\n<\/pre>\n
The above code is by Daniil Tutubalin 25lines.com forums.<\/i><\/p>\n
UPDATE:<\/p>\n
Since writing this post the 25lines.com forum thread has grown to include a 4 line version and some additional discussion about this topic… be sure to check it out<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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