jigoku / love-gameoflife

An OpenGL accelerated game of life using Love2d

Love2d Conway's Game of Life (GPU Accelerated)

Just a little experiment in using an OpenGL fragment shader to calculate the next generation in a game of life. Most of the work is done inside calculationShader.glsl. main.lua handles shuffling the textures around to the fragment shader.

View more screenshots and information here : abusing lovë2D pixel shaders.

Controls

• space - stop/start the simulation
• left click - bring alive the cell underneath the mouse
• left click + g - spawn a glider underneath the mouse
• right click - kill the cell underneath the mouse
• s - "single step" the simulation (calculate the next generation)
• up, down - increase/decrease the simulation rate
• r - fill the screen with randomly alive or dead cells
• c - kill all the cells
• h - fill the entire screen with gliders (very fun to disturb)