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  • very cool!
  • left side must be clean!
  • Great stuff! What's it running on?
  • This is a great way to introduce new frameworks or tools (i.e. show what can be done with it).

    And by far the best GOL I've seen so far.

  • My browser froze up so fast when I visited your page. Had to restart my machine.
  • Nice. The five-tile paint cursor is an excellent design choice, much easier than the single-tile default you get on apps like Golly etc.

    What’s the Hypermedia reference? On mobile your About button is unclickable.

    by io84
  • How crazy that I started working on something similar a week ago.

    Question, why does clicking on a single tile cause a cross on a 3x3 to be inputted? (results in that star thing that ends with 4 blinkers) Was this a conscious decision? Or just the result of a vibecoding

  • Neat! I implemented something similar (real time playing along with GoL) for desktop:

    https://github.com/hbmartin/openrndr-game-of-life

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