/game-of-life-js

Conway's game of life, in JavaScript

Primary LanguageJavaScript

A JavaScript implementation of Conway's Game of Life.

  • represents the board as 2D array of cells
  • creates a second representation of board as 2D array of number of live neighbors
  • uses map, filter, and reduce for calculation/iteration

index.html displays a canvas version of the program, with play/pause and reload buttons. (Play/pause can be triggered with the Space or Enter keys. Reloading can be triggered with the r key.)

Also, can run on the terminal or in the browser console.